4533.0 - Directory of Family and Domestic Violence Statistics, 2013  
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Contact details
Purpose
Description
Definition of family and domestic violence
Relationship to Defining the data challenge for family, domestic and sexual violence (cat. no. 4529.0)
Family and domestic violence related content (data items collected)
Collection methodology
Scope / Target population
Coverage
Data availability / Dissemination
Publications
Collection history
Other directory data sources held by this agency

POLICE REAL TIME ONLINE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (PROMIS), NORTHERN TERRITORY (2013 provider updates not received)

DASHBOARD METADATA

Collection typeGeographic coverageFrequencyData availability
  • Administrative by-product
  • Northern Territory
  • Other2
  • More than Annual
  • Detailed publication / report publicly available
  • Not published - may be available on request 1
[1] May be subject to release conditions
[2] Data available for NT, urban and remote areas and communities. Data may be aggregated for the urban centres of Darwin, Palmerston, Katherine, Tennant Creek, Alice Springs, Nhulunbuy and NT Balance. The six urban centres are equivalent to the Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Darwin, Palmerston, Katherine, Tennant Creek , Alice Springs and the Statistical Local Area of Nhulunbuy (ASGC 2001).

DETAILED METADATA

Contact details

Data custodianNorthern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services
Contact The Business Improvement and Planning Branch
AddressPO Box 39764, Winnellie, NT, 0821
Telephone08 8985 8801
Facsimile n/a
EmailResearchandstatistics.PFES@pfes.nt.gov.au
Internethttp://www.pfes.nt.gov.au
Source linkhttp://www.nt.gov.au/justice/policycoord/researchstats/stats_previous.shtml#2013
PURPOSE

The primary purpose of the Police Real-time On-line Management Information System (PROMIS) is to provide an internal case management tool for police business. The purpose of publishing recorded incidents and offences data is to inform the Northern Territory Government and broader community on trends and patterns in key crime indicators, including domestic and family violence.

DESCRIPTION

PROMIS is an operational system that contains data relating to reported incidents and offences recorded by the Northern Territory Police. PROMIS is used to record incidents that come to the attention of Northern Territory Police and to flag incidents involving Family Violence.

DEFINITION OF FAMILY AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

The definition of domestic and family violence used is consistent with the Northern Territory’s Domestic and Family Violence Act (2009) and includes all matters relating to Domestic Violence Orders (formerly Restraining Orders).

Domestic and family related incidents include all incidents where the nature of the incident is between people in a ‘domestic relationship’, according to the definition in Section 9 of the Act. This definition includes intimate partners (who are married or unmarried, in de facto relationships, boyfriends, girlfriends, gay or straight) and violence between other members of a family, household or community.

Such incidents cover the range of behaviours described in Section 5 of the Act and include: conduct causing harm, for example, sexual or physical assault; damaging property, including the injury or death of an animal; emotional abuse; intimidation; financial deprivation; stalking; and economic abuse, or attempting or threatening to commit the above-mentioned conduct. It also includes child abuse and neglect.

Northern Territory Police policy defines domestic and family related incidents to include all incidents resulting in police being called where the nature of the incident is between people in family, carer and intimate relationships (that is, a “domestic relationship” under section 9 of the Act).

The legislation is linked into the Northern Territory's Police Practice and Procedure Manual. This is a guide for police officers on how information is to be recorded in PROMIS.

Aspects of family and domestic violence captured in the data are:
  • physical abuse;
  • sexual abuse;
  • psychological / emotional abuse;
  • economic abuse;
  • social abuse;
  • property damage; and
  • harassment and stalking.

RELATIONSHIP TO DEFINING THE DATA CHALLENGE FOR FAMILY, DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE (cat. no. 4529.0)

The summary table below is designed to indicate the amount of information available for each of the six elements outlined in Defining the Data Challenge for Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence, 2013 (cat. no. 4529.0). This is a subjective assessment made by the ABS about the data collected and is not an indication of data quality.

Conceptual Framework
Amount of Information Available
Element/Sub–element
Some
Detailed
Context
Environmental factors
Psycho-social factors
Risk
Community prevalence
Community incidence
Incident/event
Responses
Formal responses
Informal responses
Impacts/Outcomes
Programs, Research & Evaluation
FAMILY AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RELATED CONTENT (data items collected)

The following tables provide a detailed analysis of the availability of specified data elements in the data source. The data items have been grouped into four counting units:
1. Context;
2. Person;
3. Incident/Event; and
4. Transaction.

Tables are absent from the entry in cases where the data source contains no data items which relate to the particular counting unit/s.

Context

Please note: This data source does not contain any data items relevant to this counting unit. Person

Data Items
Victim
Perpetrator
Secondary
Residential location
Age
Sex
Indigenous status
Disability status
Country of birth
Language spoken
Employment status
Education
Income
Socio-economic status
Mental illness
Other
Incident/event

Data Items
Available
Location of incident/event
Residential location
1
Workplace
Educational institution
1
Public Place
1
Other Location
Relationship between parties
Current partner
Previous partner
Boyfriend/girlfriend/date
Parent
Child
Sibling
Other relatives
Other member of household
Personal/financial dependency
Other
Other Characteristics
Weapon used
Type of weapon
Physical injury sustained
Type of injury sustained
Pregnancy
Alcohol/substance use
Prior history of victimisation/offending
Change to routine
Time off work/economic costs
Perceptions of behaviour as criminal
Other
[1] Location types for offences only.Transaction

Data Items
Available
Detection
Reported to police
Reasons not reported to police
Satisfaction with police response
Application for violence order
Violence order issued
Offender charged
Offender went to court
Offender sentence type
Child protection involvement
Other (time incident recorded and occurred/family violence indicator)
Formal support
Services used/referral to services
Medical treatment/type
Counselling
Legal
Financial
Housing/accommodation
Crisis
Other
Informal Support
Family/friends
Minister/priest
Telephone service
Other
COLLECTION METHODOLOGY

The Northern Territory Police use PROMIS to record incidents that come to their attention. Northern Territory Police business systems, including PROMIS and Intergraph Computer Aided Dispatch (ICAD) capture all reported crime incidents and victimisation. All reports to police through the call centre are entered into the ICAD system which then creates a record in PROMIS. Subsequent inquiries by the Police determine what, if any, offences are associated with the incident and are recorded in PROMIS.

As such, a single criminal incident may result in a number of offences being recorded on one crime report.

All domestic and family violence related incidents reported to the Northern Territory Police are entered into PROMIS as ‘family violence’ cases by means of the ‘Family Violence Case’ indicator that must be checked for each incident.

SCOPE / TARGET POPULATION

All Northern Territory residents.

COVERAGE

All reported incidents of family violence are recorded in PROMIS.

DATA AVAILABILITY / DISSEMINATION

De-identified data is available on request at no cost, but is subject to executive approval.

PUBLICATIONS

Northern Territory Quarterly Crime and Justice Statistics, compiled and published by the Northern Territory Department of the Attorney-General and Justice

COLLECTION HISTORY

Collection commenced: PROMIS commenced in the NT in 1999, with a significant data collection modification in April 2007. As such, it is difficult to compare data from these two periods. Additionally, assorted modifications have occurred within the system over its life.

Break in series: no

Other details: n/a

OTHER DIRECTORY DATA SOURCES HELD BY THIS AGENCY

n/a