Police
Report
Opportunities abound abroad: optimising our criminal intelligence system overseas
Criminal intelligence (CrimInt) is so useful in serious criminal investigations that it’s difficult to envisage a situation where it shouldn’t be sought and used if it’s available. This special report argues that Australia’s current arrangements for gathering and disseminating CrimInt overseas are suboptimal. While additional resources are needed to address this condition, there’s also a...
Report
Victoria Police mental health review
The Victoria Police Mental Health Review is an independent review into the mental health and wellbeing of Victoria Police employees.
Report
Sense and sensitivity: family law, family violence, and confidentiality
Executive summary Women’s Legal Service NSW (‘WLS NSW’) is a community legal centre providing free legal services across NSW to women who are disadvantaged by their cultural, social and economic circumstances. The majority of the women that WLS NSW works with have experienced domestic and family violence and for more than twenty years WLS NSW...
Statistics
Australian firearm amnesty, buyback and destruction totals, 1987-2015
From 1988 to 2015, Australia ran forty-one state, territory and federal firearm amnesties for a combined total of 3,274 weeks. From the reports in which numbers were published, a minimum of 1,121,577 firearms were surrendered to police for destruction.
Evaluation
Tonga Police Development Programme evaluation
This evaluation identifies what is working and what is not in order to improve the Tonga Police Development Programme management and implementation, and achievement of results, for the remaining duration of its current phase.