Statistics

The DUMA program has been operating since 1999 and collects drug use and criminal justice information quarterly from police detainees at multiple sites across Australia. 

The NHMP has collected and analysed information on all homicides in Australia since 1990. Establishment of the program was recommended by the National Committee on Violence and has been made possible by the cooperation and continued support of all Australian police services.

The National Deaths in Custody Program (NDICP) monitors the extent and nature of Indigenous and non-Indigenous deaths occurring in prison, police custody and youth detention from 1980 onwards. The program was established following Recommendation 41 from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody for ongoing monitoring of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody.

Identity crime is one of the most prevalent crime types in Australia with reports of incidence and harm far exceeding other forms of property crime and personal violent crime. As part of the measurement framework, the Attorney-General’s Department engaged the AIC to conduct its annual monitoring of identity crime and misuse.