Australian police deal with a domestic violence matter every two minutes

Updated

Australian police deal with an estimated 657 domestic violence matters on average every day of the year. That's one every two minutes.

Those figures are based on data provided by police services around the country about how often their officers work on domestic violence cases.

Overall, the count is 239,846 per year around the country.

There is no standard definition of domestic and family violence across all jurisdictions in Australia and no standard way for counting the number of police call-outs to situations related to domestic violence.

The details of the data being captured varies across jurisdictions and can include:

attendance at suspected domestic and family violence incidents;

domestic and family violence court orders made by the police;

domestic and family violence assaults (encompassing threats and physical violence); and

associated agencies reporting domestic and family violence to the police.

The breakdown of data is as follows.

* Figure provided by state and territory police. Other numbers are calculated based on this figure and rounded to nearest whole number.

Topics: domestic-violence, australia

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