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DETAILED METADATA
Contact
Data custodian: Australian Federal Police
Contact: Policy, Performance and Planning section
Address: C/O Winchester Police Centre, PO Box 401, Canberra City, ACT, 2601
Telephone: 02 6256 7777
Facsimile: n/a
Email: ACT-PPP-Statistics@afp.gov.au
Internet: http://www.police.act.gov.au
Publications
FDV data not routinely published.
Purpose
Police Real Time Online Management Information System (PROMIS) is the Australian Federal Police administrative system used to record crime and police incidents.
Description
PROMIS is the primary corporate system for recording investigations and operational information.
Collection Type
Administrative by-product
Family and Domestic Violence related content (data items collected)
| Data Item |
Victim
| Secondary victim |
Offender
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| Demographics | |||
| Age |  |  |  |
| Sex |  |  |  |
| Indigenous Status |  |  |  |
| Disability |  |  |  |
| Country of Birth |  |  |  |
| Language spoken |  |  |  |
| Employment |  |  |  |
| Education |  |  |  |
| Income |  |  |  |
| Geography |  |  |  |
| Other |  |  |  |
| Personal data item | |||
| Services used / referrals to services counselling legal financial housing crisis other |  |  |  |
| Health factors pregnancy alcohol use / substance use mental illness |  |  |  |
| FDV-related perceptions satisfaction with police response seriousness/ regarded as criminal whether problem in neighbourhood feelings of safety / fear |  |  |  |
| Prior history of victimisation / offending |  |  |  |
| Known outcomes application for violence order violence order issued offender charged offender went to court offender found guilty offender sentence type child protection involvement time off work / economic costs medical treatment received / type changed routine other |  |  |  |
| Other personal data items |  |  |  |
| Data Item |
Incident
|
| Location home workplace school/place of education/institution public place other |       Licensed premises; Hotel/motel; Shop |
| Relationship between parties married/de facto spouse current / former partner/boyfriend/girlfriend parent-child sibling other member of household other relatives relationships of personal or financial dependency |         |
| Weapon use type of weapon |   |
| Alcohol involved Substance use involved |  1 |
| Physical injury sustained type of injury |   |
| Reported to police reasons for not reporting |   |
| Other |  Mental illness involved1 |
Note that mental illness and/or alcohol use cannot be linked specifically to the victim or offender.
Definition of Family and Domestic Violence
Family violence can include criminal and non-criminal behaviours. A Family Violence tick box is used within PROMIS to identify if an incident is a Family and Domestic Violence incident. To be considered an FDV incident, two elements must be present:
- a relevant Family Violence relationship which must
include relevant person(s) which are defined as in relation to a person
(the original person).
A relevant person means a domestic partner of the original person (but
need not be an adult), or a relative of the original person (father,
mother, grandfather, grandmother, stepfather, stepmother, father-in-law
or mother-in-law; or son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, stepson,
stepdaughter, son-in-law or daughter-in-law; or brother, sister,
half-brother, half-sister, stepbrother, stepsister, brother-in-law or
sister-in-law; or uncle, aunt, uncle-in-law or aunt-in-law; or nephew,
niece or cousin); someone who would have been a relative, or a child of a
domestic partner or former domestic partner of the original person, or a
parent of a child of the original person, or someone who is or has been
in a relevant relationship with the original person.
A relevant relationship is defined as the extent to which each is personally dependent on the other, the extent to which each is financially dependent on the other, the length of the relationship, if there is, or has been, a sexual relationship, the extent to which each is involved in, or knows about, the other's personal life, the degree of mutual commitment to a shared life, the two people share care or support for children or other dependents; and - a relevant Family Violence offence is threatened or committed. A list of the 58 Family Violence offences can be found at Schedule 1, Domestic Violence and Protection Orders Act 2008, and include but are not limited to murder, manslaughter, assault, driving offences, threats, forcible confinement, stalking, abduction, kidnapping, sexual assault, destroying or damaging property, arson, trespass on government premises, weapons offences, offensive behaviour and burglary
- Police will also tick the Family Violence tick box when there has been a threat to commit an offence or where there is evidence of the use of power and control within the relationship.
Aspects of FDV captured in the data are:
- Physical abuse
- Sexual abuse
- Psychological / Emotional abuse
- Verbal abuse
- Economic abuse
- Social abuse
- Property damage
- Harassment and stalking
Relationship to Conceptual Framework for Family and Domestic Violence (Cat. No. 4529.0)
| Conceptual Framework Element / Sub-element |
Amount of Information Available
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None
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Some
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Detailed
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| Context |  |  | |
| Environmental Factors |  | | |
| Individual pyscho-social factors |  | | |
| Risk | |  | |
| Community prevalence | |  | |
| Community incidence | |  | |
| Understandings and acknowledgments of risk and safety | |  | |
| Incident | |  | |
| Responses |  | | |
| Informal responses |  | | |
| Formal system responses |  | | |
| Impacts/Outcomes |  | | |
| Programs, Research & Evaluation |  | | |
Collection methodology
Information is entered into PROMIS by police officers. Each week the ACT Policing Intervention team search PROMIS using date and offence fields and read through the result text of about 380 jobs. From this approximately 60-70 FDV incidents are confirmed in Canberra each week. To be confirmed, a Family and Domestic Violence incident must meet the definition of a relevant Family Violence relationship and a relevant Family Violence offence (see definition above). Currently the quality of the Family Violence tick box data item is not sufficient for this field to be used as an indicator of Family and Domestic Violence incidents alone.
Other details about the incident may be stored in the case note but these details are not readily accessible (free text field) for statistical purposes. For example, the case note usually includes information on whether persons involved in the family violence incident were referred to support services by police, what type of support services and whether they were accepted or declined. Incident type, any offences attached to Family Violence incidents and offenders apprehended from incidents flagged as family violence related are accessible.
Scope / target population
Victims and offenders.
Coverage
n/a
Geographic coverage and disaggregation
Australian Capital Territory. Full address recorded.
Data available for:
Australian Capital Territory
Frequency / Timing
Updated continually
Statistics produced as requested
Collection history
Collection commenced: December 1998
Breaks in series: no
Other details: n/a
Data availability / Dissemination
Access to data may be available upon request.
Other data sources held by this agency
n/a
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Look /F88512C94FAA64D6CA25794F001211E6?opendocument
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