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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 5 Hansard (15 May) . . Page.. 1566 ..

Mrs Carnell (continuing):

(16) The following costs have been estimated by the agencies and should only be regarded as approximations. The cost for administering illicit drug laws are:

Agency Cost

Department of Health and Community estimated cost of $79,000 pa
Care, Alcohol and Drug Service
Administering and coordinating the
Treatment Referral Program in
accordance with Part IX of the Drugs of
Dependence Act 1989

Department of Health and Community estimated cost of $20,000 pa
Care, Pharmaceutical Services Section
Administration of parts of the Drugs of
Dependence Act 1989

Department of Health and Community estimated cost of $125,000 pa
Care, ACT Government Analytical
Laboratory
Analysis of suspect drugs, including
receipt, analysis and storage

ACT Ambulance Service estimated cost of $32,800 pa

Australian Federal Police, ACT Region The Australian Federal Police does not
specifically record the cost of policing
illicit drugs.

Legal Aid Office (ACT) Total Cost for 1995/96
$22,393

(17)(a) As at 1 March 1997, of 115 ACT prisoners in NSW prisons, 12 were identified as being sentenced to imprisonment as a result of crimes in the ACT which are directly attributable to illegal drugs.

(17)(b) The ACT currently only records the most serious offence and not subsets of that offence. As an example if a heroin addict committed murder in order to gain money for drugs, the only offence recorded would be that of murder, not drug addition.

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