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POLICE REAL TIME ONLINE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (PROMIS), AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY


DASHBOARD METADATA

Geographic Coverage	Frequency	Data Availability
National New South Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia South Australia Tasmania Northern Territory ACT Regional LGA ASGC Remoteness Other	More than annual Annual 2-4 yearly Less than 5 yearly Once only Ad hoc	Detailed publication / report publicly available Data cubes / spreadsheets publicly available Agency annual report Customised data - free upon request1 Customised data - charged consultancy1 Not published - may be available on request1 Not publicly available

[1] May be subject to release conditions

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
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

1 Alcohol involved data available from April 2010, and mental illness data from September 2010.
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:

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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.

• Physical abuse
• Sexual abuse
• Psychological / Emotional abuse
• Verbal abuse
• Economic abuse
• Social abuse
• Property damage
• Harassment and stalking

Conceptual Framework Element / Sub-element	Amount of Information Available
	None	Some	Detailed
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