Page 4487 - Week 12 - Thursday, 24 October 2019
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Crime—prosecutions
(Question No 2756)
Mrs Jones asked the Attorney-General, upon notice, on 27 September 2019:
(1) Can the Attorney-General provide the total number of criminal prosecutions for each of the last five financial years to date, broken down by type of crime.
(2) Can the Attorney-General provide the total number of appeals submitted by the Director of Public Prosecutions on criminal matters for each of the last five financial years to date, broken down by type of crime.
(3) Can the Attorney-General provide the total number of prosecutions for each of the last five financial years to date, broken down by the outcomes of (a) convictions, (b) pleas, (c) mistrials, (d) acquittals and (e) other relevant categories.
(4) Can the Attorney-General provide for each of the last five financial years to date (a) average and median number of days taken to prepare cases, (b) average and median costs to prepare cases and (c) average number of days in court per case.
(5) What procedures are in place to determine whether to prosecute a case or person and how are these procedures different for offenders under the age of eighteen.
(6) What was the average number of days between a defendant being charged and a defendant’s court date for each of the last five financial years to date.
(7) What was the average number of days to commence a retrial after a mistrial for each of the last five financial years to date.
Mr Ramsay: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) This information is published in the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions’ (DPP) Annual Report each year, and more specifically, is located in Table 2.
Annual reports for the Office dating back to the 2009-2010 reporting period can be accessed via the following link:
https://www.dpp.act.gov.au/publications/annual_reports
(2) This information is published in the DPP’s Annual Report each year, and more specifically, is located in Table 6. However, we are not able to break these figures down further into type of crime.
Annual reports for the Office dating back to the 2009-2010 reporting period can be accessed via the following link:
https://www.dpp.act.gov.au/publications/annual_reports
(3) This information is published in the DPP’s Annual Report each year. We provide the number of charges finalised and do so in the Annual Report at Table 1.
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