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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

Legislative Assembly Question No. 178

Mr Humphries - asked the Attorney General

(1) What crimes have been reported to police in each of Canberras suburban, district and

town centre shopping centres in 1991-92 (year-to-date), 1990-91, 1989-90,

11 May 1989 to 30 June 1989.

How many of these crimes, by category, have been "cleared-up".

(3) What percentage of the Territorys total crime, by category, occurs in or around

Canberras shopping centres.

(4) What complaints (not involving a criminal offence) have been reported to police in

each of Canberras suburban, district and town centre shopping centres in 1991-92

(year-to-date), 1990-y1, 1989-90, 11 May 1989 to 30 June 1989.

(5) How are Canberras shopping centres policed.

(6) How much does the Australian Federal Police spend on patrolling Canberras shopping centres.

(7) How does this compare with other policing activities.

(8) What effort is put into crime deterrence in Canberras shopping centres.

(9) What is the Governments existing policy on the policing of Canberras shopping

centre.

Mr Connolly - the answer to the Members question is as follows:

NOTE: The AFP system does not allow for the extraction of statistics for part months.

Consequently, statistics have been provided from 1 May 1989, not

11 May 1989.

The figures have not been broken down to individual shopping centres due to

the difficulty in putting the rcsponse into a readable form and the final number

of pages it would require.

The figures quoted beiow relate to alleged offences taken from the Criminal

Offence Report (COP) database, and du not necessarily reflect the incidence

of a particular crime.

The figures DO NOT include figures for offences committed at

Service Stations which are not necessarily located at shopping centres.

Figures quoted in AFP Annual Reports include all offences at all

locations.

The figures are correct as at July 1992.

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