{"id":231223,"date":"2019-03-19T22:14:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T12:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=231223"},"modified":"2020-07-22T10:37:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T00:37:29","slug":"drug-offences-drop-for-second-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2019\/03\/19\/drug-offences-drop-for-second-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Offences Drop For Second Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_197443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-197443\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-197443\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171207marijuana1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171207marijuana1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171207marijuana1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-197443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assaults and illicit drug offences were Australia&#8217;s two most common crimes in 2017-18, but drug offences declined for the second year running (Photo: QPS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>March 19, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Assaults and illicit drug use were the two most common crimes in Australia last year, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).<\/p>\n<p>Assault or other acts intended to cause injury accounted for the largest number of offenders (78,391), followed closely by illicit drug use (78,167).<\/p>\n<p>However, the total number of people charged with drug offences decreased for the second year running while the number of assaults remained relatively stable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABS Director of Crime and Justice Statistics William Milne said there had been a drop of almost 3000 illicit drug use charges nationally compared with the previous year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Milne also said most offenders (67 per cent) were charged with possession or use of drugs rather than the more serious offences of dealing, trafficking, or manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>The ABS found more than seven in 10 drug offences were committed by males, and slightly more than half of drug offenders were under 30 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Milne said in 2015-16, illicit drug offenses exceeded 83,000, the largest number recorded in the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>However, this had declined in the two years since then.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Milne said the total number of offenders had decreased by between 1 and 6 per cent in most States and territories last year.<\/p>\n<p>The only area which recorded an increase was the Northern Territory, where total offenders rose by 651 (6 per cent)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Between 2016-17 and 2017-18, the number of offenders proceeded against by police decreased in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Queensland (down 3115 offenders or 3pc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>South Australia (down 2909 offenders or 6pc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>NSW (down 2503 offenders or 2pc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Western Australia (down 382 offenders or less than 1pc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>ACT (down 37 offenders or 1pc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Tasmania (down 26 offenders or less than 1pc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> A total offender count for Victoria for 2017\u201318 was not available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assaults and illicit drug use were the two most common crimes in Australia last year, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":197443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,24],"tags":[1132],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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