A1C.48.

Police services (COFOG-A 031) consists of government expenditure on police services. This category is further classified into:

• police services (COFOG-A 0311).

A1C.49.

Police services (COFOG-A 0311) consists of:

• the administration of police affairs and services including alien registration, issuing work and travel documents to immigrants, maintenance of arrest records and statistics related to police work, road traffic regulation and control, prevention of smuggling and control of offshore and ocean fishing; and
• the operation of regular and auxiliary police forces; operation of port, border and coast guards and of other special police forces maintained by public authorities; operation of police laboratories; operation or support of police training programs.

Includes: Traffic wardens; control of water traffic involving direct action by police.

Excludes: Police colleges offering general education in addition to police training (classified to preliminary and primary education (COFOG-A 091), secondary education (COFOG-A 092) or tertiary education (COFOG-A 093)).

A1C.50.

Civil and fire protection services (COFOG-A 032) consists of government expenditure on civil and fire protection services. This category is further classified into:

• civil protection services (COFOG-A 0321); and
• fire protection services (COFOG-A 0322).

A1C.51.

Civil protection services (COFOG-A 0321) consists of:

• the administration of civil protection affairs and services; and
• the operation of civil protection services maintained by public authorities; operation or support of civil protection training programs.

Includes: Civil protection services such as mountain rescue, beach surveillance (including beach patrols and beach inspection), life saving, evacuation of flooded areas, etc.; maintenance of state emergency services such as through local government contributions, and their operations that cannot be allocated to natural disaster relief.

A1C.52.

Fire protection services (COFOG-A 0322) consists of:

• the administration of fire prevention and fire fighting affairs and services; and
• the operation of regular and auxiliary fire brigades and of other fire prevention and fire fighting services maintained by public authorities; operation or support of fire prevention and fire fighting training programs.

Includes: Contributions to volunteer fire brigades; operation of fire brigade boards; roadside clearing operations; rural fire services.

Excludes: Civil defence (classified to civil defence (COFOG-A 0212)); forces especially trained and equipped for fighting or preventing forest fires (classified to forestry (COFOG-A 0422)); cash benefits and benefits in kind to victims of fire (classified to natural disaster relief (COFOG-A 1091) or social protection not elsewhere classified (COFOG-A 1099)); maintenance of state emergency services, such as through local government contributions (classified to civil protection services (COFOG-A 0321)); fire control activities carried out in national parks, state reserves and crown land (classified to protection of biodiversity and landscape (COFOG-A 0541)).

A1C.53.

Law courts and associated activities (COFOG-A 033) consists of government expenditure on law courts and associated activities. This category is further classified into:

• law courts and associated activities (COFOG-A 0331).

A1C.54.

Law courts and associated activities (COFOG-A 0331) consists of:

• the administration, operation or support of civil and criminal law courts and the judicial system, including enforcement of fines and legal settlements imposed by the courts and operation of parole and probation systems; and
• the legal representation and advice on behalf of government or on behalf of others provided by government in cash or in services.

Includes: Administrative tribunals; ombudsmen and the like; costs of crown prosecutions; law reform; registration of legal titles to property; registration of births, deaths and marriages.

Excludes: Prison administration (classified to prisons (COFOG-A 0341)); industrial law (classified to general labour affairs (COFOG-A 0412)); tribunals and appeals boards connected with a specific function (classified according to function); trusteeship services (not applicable for this classification).

A1C.55.

Prisons (COFOG-A 034) consists of government expenditure on prisons. This category is further classified into:

• prisons (COFOG-A 0341).

A1C.56.

Prisons (COFOG-A 0341) consists of:

• the administration, operation or support of prisons and other places for the detention or rehabilitation of criminals such as prison farms, workhouses, reformatories, borstals, asylums for the criminally insane, etc.

Includes: Non-institutional corrective services; remand centres; places of secure detention for juveniles, child offenders and children on remand for alleged offences; youth training centres; juvenile corrective institutions; community-based correction activities where the offender or alleged offender is at large in the community but is required to adhere to certain rehabilitation sessions such as parole and probation services, community service orders and attendance centres.

Excludes: Residential child care institutions that are not places of secure detention such as juvenile hostels, campus homes, family group homes, etc. (classified to family and children (COFOG-A 1031)).

A1C.57.

Research and development - public order and safety (COFOG-A 035) consists of government expenditure on research and development relating to public order and safety. Definitions of basic research, applied research and experimental development are given under COFOG-A 014 and COFOG-A 015. This category is further classified into:

• research and development - public order and safety (COFOG-A 0351).

A1C.58.

Research and development - public order and safety (COFOG-A 0351) consists of:

• the administration and operation of government agencies engaged in applied research and experimental development related to public order and safety; and
• grants, loans or subsidies to support applied research and experimental development related to public order and safety undertaken by non-government bodies such as research institutes and universities.

Excludes: Basic research (classified to basic research (COFOG-A 0141)).

A1C.59.

Public order and safety not elsewhere classified (COFOG-A 039) consists of government expenditure on public order and safety not elsewhere classified. This category is further classified into:

• control of domestic animals and livestock (COFOG-A 0391); and
• public order and safety not elsewhere classified (COFOG-A 0399).

A1C.60.

Control of domestic animals and livestock (COFOG-A 0391) consists of:

• the administration, operation or support of programs relating to the control of domestic animals and stray cattle.

Includes: Animal registration; animal pounds; control of stray cattle; associated veterinary costs.

Excludes: Veterinary medicine and animal husbandry costs connected to agricultural research (classified to research and development - agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (COFOG-A 0472)).

A1C.61.

Public order and safety not elsewhere classified (COFOG-A 0399) consists of:

• the administration, operation or support of activities such as formulation, administration, coordination and monitoring of overall policies, plans, programs and budgets relating to public order and safety; preparation and enforcement of legislation and standards for the provision of public order and safety; production and dissemination of general information, technical documentation and statistics on public order and safety.

Includes: Control of explosives; human rights organisations; community relations; community policing; programs to improve or promote public order and safety such as domestic violence prevention programs, community justice programs and night patrol programs; public order and safety affairs and services that cannot be classified to police services (COFOG-A 031), civil and fire protection services (COFOG-A 032), law courts and associated activities (COFOG-A 033), prisons (COFOG-A 034), research and development - public order and safety (COFOG-A 035) or control of domestic animals and livestock (COFOG-A 0391).

Excludes: Road safety (classified to road transport not elsewhere classified (COFOG-A 1119)); operations of state emergency services that can be allocated to natural disaster relief (classified to natural disaster relief (COFOG-A 1091)).