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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 5 Hansard (27 August) . . Page.. 1581 ..

(2) The AFP's offences database, Computerised Online Policing System (COPS), records offences reported or becoming known to the ACT Region of the AFP. COPS includes move on powers as key words when entering offences.

(3) The training package being developed will include best practice guidelines for the exercise of move on powers.

(4) Effectiveness of move on powers will be assessed by individual officers when deciding to apply the powers during actual incidents.

(5) Assault offences are recorded within COPS.

(6) Yes.

(7) Yes. I table in the Legislative Assembly each year the AFP ACT Region's Annual Report which includes offences reported or becoming known in the ACT. The data, extracted from COPS, includes all assaults and other violent crime.

It is not possible to provide a breakdown as requested at (a) to (g) as the COPS database uses different parameters for recording the location of offences.

The following data is for the three years 1994/95, 1995/96 and 1996/97 and offence types within the category of offences against the person in "public places" where move on powers can be applied:

1994/95

Public place Car park* Bus depot Recreational Other* Total in Percentage

includes street, and centre* "Public of Total

footpath and interchange Place" Offences**

bicycle path

Murder 1 1 25%

Attempted Murder 1 1 25%

Conspiracy to

Murder 0

Manslaughter 0

Assault

Occasioning GBH 13 2 15 63%

Assault

Occasioning ABH 145 17 3 8 173 46%

Assault, Other 495 43 9 14 38 599 53%

Sexual Assault 29 4 3 5 41 40%

Other Offences

Against the Person 17 2 1 20 20%

Armed Robbery 11 3 14 50%

Other Robbery 60 8 1 69 84%

Total 771 80 13 17 52 933 50%

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