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2. ACT Policing business systems do not provide for ‘real time’ data on family violence related matters (including Family Violence Orders, after hours and interim orders).
Statistical reporting requires manual processing and is prepared fortnightly.
3. ACT Policing works closely with Government and non-government agencies to ensure a collaborative approach in combating family violence and providing ongoing support for victims.
Currently each organisation collates and reports on their own data and reports on different aspects of family violence including the age and gender of the victim. Each agency has a different role to play in prosecuting offenders and supporting victims of family violence. These roles are complimentary but recorded and reported differently.
4. ACT Policing is able to provide disaggregated age and gender data regarding sexual assault offences. ACT Policing is able to report on the number of sexual assault incidents reported to ACT Policing, the number of offences that proceed to a prosecution and the number of incidents that do not proceed to court.
ACT Policing however does not have a reporting mechanism to track individual stages of an investigation. It should be noted there are a variety of reasons why matters do not proceed to court. These range from insufficient evidence to form a prima facie case, to a withdrawal of a complaint by the complainant.
5. Due to the nature of family violence investigations, not all criminal offences are identified at the time of the incident. A large number of incidents that ACT Policing attend do not result in a criminal offence so the number of family violence related offences reported do not reflect the number of family violence incidents attended and investigated by ACT Policing.
6. ACT Policing is committed to the safety of members of our community and will support people at their most vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic.
ACT Policing is working with Government agencies and non-government partners to ensure a collaborative approach in protecting the community against family violence during the current COVID-19 pandemic. For example ACT Policing is working collaboratively with the Domestic Violence Crisis Service ACT to distribute social media safety information for people isolating at home during the COVID-19.
ACT Policing’s Family Violence Coordination Unit is also utilising email and phone to contact victims and perpetrators.
COVID-19 pandemic––safety measures
(Question No 2984)
Ms Le Couteur asked the Minister for Community Services and Facilities, upon notice, on 3 April 2020:
(1) What provisions are being put in place to ensure that frontline community support workers, (for example those in aged care, National Disability Insurance Scheme support workers, Child and Youth Protection Services staff etc), have access to appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic?
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