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ACT Policing—bicycle thefts and cycling accidents
(Question No 290)

Mr Parton asked the Minister for Police and Emergency Services, upon notice, on 4 June 2021:

(1) How many bicycle thefts were there in Canberra in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021 to date.

(2) How many of the thefts referred to in part (1) were in (a) Canberra City, (b) Gungahlin Town Centre, (c) Belconnen Town Centre, (d) Woden Town Centre and (e) Tuggeranong Town Centre.

(3) How many bicycle accidents have there been across Canberra in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021 to date.

(4) How many bicycle accidents have resulted in serious injuries for the cyclist in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021 to date.

Mr Gentleman: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:

(1)

ACT Policing and ACT Region Crime Stoppers launched Bikelinc in late 2020. Bikelinc enables cyclists to store images and details of their bike in a secure and easily searchable database. More than 1000 local bicycles were registered on the Bikelinc database in February 2021. ACT Policing is hopeful this will act as a deterrent to bicycle thieves, as prospective buyers of a bike can use Bikelinc to determine if a bike has been reported lost or stolen.

(2) ACT Policing can only provide the number of bicycle thefts reported to ACT Policing by the suburbs where each of the requested town centres are located:

(3) ACT Policing is unable to provide the number of accidents involving bicycle accidents as it would require the diversion of police resources to manually interrogate all

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