WA Parliamentary Question on Notice regarding clandestine drug laboratories discovered in WA between 2009-2011, including locations, charges, convictions, explosions, and the presence of children. The answer provides data on charges, convictions, imprisonment, explosions, and children present at lab sites.

AnsweredQoN 5992Legislative Assembly
Asked
11 August 2011
Portfolio
Police

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I refer to the discovery of clandestine drug laboratories for the calendar years 2009, 2010 and 2011 (to date), and ask:
(a) can the Minister list the town or suburb in which each of the clandestine drug laboratories were discovered;
(b) for each year listed, can the Minister advise how many charges resulted from each clandestine drug laboratory discovered;
(c) how many of those charges resulted in convictions;
(d) how many of those convictions resulted in imprisonment;
(e) for each year listed, in how many cases has the clandestine drug laboratory been discovered by virtue of an explosion; and
(f) for each year listed, in how many cases were children found on the premises of the drug laboratory?

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Answered
27 September 2011
Responded by
Minister for Police
Response time
47 days
(a) [see tabled paper no.]
(b) 2009 Total Persons Charged: 83
Total Charges Laid:184
2010 Total Persons Charged: 111
Total Charges Laid: 216
2011 Total Persons Charged: 91
Total Charges Laid: 156
(c) 2009 Charges Laid: 184
Convictions: 141
Convictions Pending and in the court process: 15
2010 Charges Laid: 216
Convictions: 150
Convictions Pending and in the court process: 40
2011 Charges Laid: 156
Convictions: 30
Convictions Pending and in the court process: 122
(d) 2009 Convictions: 141
Imprisonment: 28
2010 Convictions: 150
Imprisonment: 58
2011 Convictions: 30
Imprisonment: 3
(e) 2009 7
2010 5
2011 9
(f) 2009 No. of laboratories with children at laboratory site: Data not captured
No. of laboratories with children resident premises: Data not captured
Total laboratories with children involved: Data not captured
2010 No. of laboratories with children at laboratory site: 17
No. of laboratories with children resident premises: 15
Total laboratories with children involved: 24
2011 No. of laboratories with children at laboratory site: 12
No. of laboratories with children resident premises: 26
Total laboratories with children involved: 30
NOTE: Data is current as at Thursday 1
st
September 2011. Total numbers of children present or residing at addresses of Improvised Drug Manufacture Sites are not recorded. The number of
premises
is recorded as having children present or residing at the address.
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