THE ACT is on track to record its highest ever number of breaches of bail by offenders, according to police data.
The data generated from a police operational system called PROMIS shows there were over 940 breaches of bail in the territory in the first half of the year.
The highest 12-month tally of bail breaches was 1379, recorded in 2019-20.
Given the current rate of bail breach arrests and charges by police – running at an average of more than two a day – it’s expected that bail breaches will be almost 30 per cent more by the end of the year.
The revelation comes on the back of a recent call by the Australian Federal Police Association (AFPA) for a review of the territory’s sentencing and bail process.
In August police union boss Alex Caruana described the ACT’s sentencing and bail processes as “fundamentally flawed and dangerously inadequate”.
“Criminals aren’t scared to commit serious offences in the ACT due to this soft regime being led by the ACT Attorney-General,” Caruana said.
ACT Attorney-General and Green’s leader Shane Rattenbury does not support a sentencing review in the ACT, and has opted instead for an internal review.
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