Page 4263 - Week 13 - Thursday, 19 November 2015
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these objectives is a comprehensive action plan that identifies 68 programs, projects and actions that drive crime reduction and improve crime prevention.
These objectives and corresponding action items are based on breaking cycles of offending and the associated cycles of vulnerability. They are about working with vulnerable and at risk youth to engage them in education, to engage them in training, to engage them in employment, and to ultimately choose education and a job over the choice to commit crime. They are about providing support and crime prevention information to victims and making buildings and public places safer by design that help discourage crime.
The 2014-15 progress report that I am tabling today shows that we are continuing the fight against property crime by implementing these projects. It includes a comprehensive analysis on the progress of the strategy, including information on key achievements and progress. All but one of the 92 tasks in the strategy have been progressed during the reporting period. The majority, 84, relate to ongoing programs or services. One, related to school participation and retention rates, cannot be reported as this measure, which was based on an ABS survey, has been discontinued. I have been advised that a new national performance measure for year 12 or equivalent outcomes is under development by the ABS.
The report demonstrates the whole-of-government effort that has been put towards achieving the strategy’s target to produce, from a 2010 baseline year, a sustainable reduction in property crime by reducing burglary crime by 10 per cent and motor vehicle theft by 20 per cent by 31 December.
The latest results against the strategy’s targets are drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ “Recorded Crime—Victims, Australia, 2014” publication. This was released at the end of June this year and reports on offences in the previous calendar year. The 2014 publication reports that in 2013 there were 2,230 victims of burglary, 2,010 fewer compared to the 2010 baseline year of 4,240 victims. This translates to a decrease of 47.7 per cent in the level of burglary in our community. I think that is a fantastic result—to see burglary down by over 47 per cent over the two years since the strategy was first implemented.
Similarly, victims of motor vehicle theft have decreased by 579, from 1,331 victims in 2010 to 752 in 2013. That is a decrease in the number of motor vehicle thefts of 43.5 per cent. These are great results. They show the collaborative whole-of-government effort that has been implemented to reduce property crime and improve community safety.
They have been achieved through a number of milestones and targets being met during 2014-15, and that includes the continuation of ACT Policing’s crime targeting team; the implementation of the priorities contained in the blueprint for youth justice and, in particular, the enhancements to the Bimberi Youth Justice Centre educational and training programs; the provision of the ACT engine immobiliser scheme; the delivery of the ACT home safety scheme; and the continuation of options development to incorporate crime prevention through environmental design in our planning codes.
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