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OUTCOMES OF POLICE INVESTIGATIONS
Statistics about the outcomes of police investigations describe the status of the processes of police investigations that are initiated following the reporting or detection of an offence. At any point in time, the status of investigations can include:
- not finalised (i.e. were still continuing, were pending or were suspended)
- finalised without an offender being proceeded against because the reported offence was not verified, the complaint was withdrawn, or the alleged offender could not be proceeded against because of some statutory or procedural bar
- finalised and an offender was proceeded against by initiating court action or some other form of formal proceeding (e.g. a diversionary conference or a formal caution).
Table 11.23 shows in 2005, approximately two-thirds of the investigations into driving causing death (68%), attempted murder (65%) and murder (64%) were finalised within 30 days of a victim becoming known to police.
The lowest proportions of finalisations at 30 days were for victims of unlawful entry with intent (9%), and motor vehicle theft (12%) and other theft (15%). However, of the total finalised for these offence types, a high proportion had an offender proceeded against by police: other theft (85%), unlawful entry with intent (81%) and motor vehicle theft (72%).
The highest proportions of investigations finalised where there was no offender proceeded against were for victims of kidnapping/abduction (32%), motor vehicle theft (28%), blackmail/extortion (26%) and robbery (25%).
11.23 VICTIMS OF RECORDED CRIME(a), By outcome of investigations at 30 days - 2005
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| Offence | Not finalised | No offender
proceeded
against | Offender
proceeded
against | Total(b) |
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| Homicide and related offences | | | | |
| Murder | 98 | 16 | 156 | 270 |
| Attempted murder | 97 | 8 | 168 | 273 |
| Manslaughter | 16 | - | 9 | 25 |
| Driving causing death | 64 | 11 | 126 | 201 |
| Total | 275 | 35 | 459 | 769 |
| Kidnapping/abduction | 479 | 82 | 171 | 732 |
| Robbery | | | | |
| Armed robbery | 4,674 | 250 | 1,296 | 6,223 |
| Unarmed robbery | 8,227 | 733 | 1,603 | 10,566 |
| Total | 12,901 | 983 | 2,899 | 16,789 |
| Blackmail/extortion | 216 | 45 | 131 | 392 |
| Unlawful entry with intent | | | | |
| Involving the taking of property | 186,543 | 3,354 | 14,258 | 204,195 |
| Other | 71,136 | 1,775 | 7,016 | 79,993 |
| Total | 257,679 | 5,129 | 21,274 | 284,188 |
| Motor vehicle theft | 71,242 | 2,686 | 6,792 | 80,738 |
| Other theft | 441,633 | 11,397 | 65,814 | 519,128 |
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(a) Depending on the type of crime, a victim may be a person, a premise, an organisation or a motor vehicle.
(b) Includes unknown outcomes of investigation. |
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| Source: Recorded Crime - Victims, Australia, 2005 (4510.0). |
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