SIMON Corbell is celebrating an ongoing fall in crime rates.
“Today the 2014 ACT Criminal Justice Statistical Profile was tabled in the Legislative Assembly and revealed a considerable drop from 2012-13 to 2013,” Simon said.
Improvements included
- • Motor vehicle thefts down 23 per
• Property damage and environmental pollution
• Robbery down 12 per cent
• Assaults down 10 per cent
• Theft and related offences down 8
• Sexual assaults down 7 per cent
• Burglary/break and enter offences down 4 per cent.
• A 16.5 percent decrease in alcohol related violence across the ACT.
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