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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 5 (Hansard) 16 May) . . Page.. 1432 ..

During the calendar year 1995:

1) How many convicted offenders:

(a) were sentenced to Community Service Orders (CSO's); and
(b) What were the offences for which they were sentenced.

2) Of those CSO's which should have been completed during 1995:

(a) How many were actually completed; and
(b) For those not completed, what were the reasons.

Mr Humphries - The answers to the member's questions to the Attorney General are as follows:

1) (a) 232 Community Service Orders were ordered by the courts.

(b) The following are the offences for which offenders were sentenced:

. Break and enter
. Burglary
. Theft
. Drive car whilst licence suspended
. Possession of drugs
. Dealing in drugs
. Prescribed concentration of alcohol

2) (a) Of those Community Service Orders which should have been completed during 1994/95, 138 or 80% were completed.

(b) Of the 20% not completed, breach action was initiated due to non-compliance with the terms of the Order or due to medical reasons preventing the offender from fulfilling the Order requirements.

NOTE: Information is not available in a "calendar" year format, due to data retrieval and collection methods. The above reflects 1994/95 financial year statistics.

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