❓ A parliamentary question seeks data on charges related to specific sexual offences, but the Minister responds that the data is not readily available and would require significant resources to extract.
AnsweredQoN 473Legislative Council
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Some notice of this question was given on 23 August. (1) On how many occasions since 1992 have persons been charged under section 322A of the Criminal Code that concerns sexual offences by male persons against juvenile males over the age of 16 years and under the age of 21 years? (2) How many cases involve persons engaged in a continuing consensual relationship? (3) How many cases exhibited a predator-victim aspect? (4) In each case - (a) what was the age of the juvenile male involved; and (b) what was the age of the offender? Hon N.D. GRIFFITHS
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) The information requested is not stored in a manner by the Western Australia Police Service to enable the question to be readily answered. To extract the data would require physical checking and assessment of each offence record, a task that would consume large amounts of policing resources and possibly take weeks to perform.
(1) On how many occasions since 1992 have persons been charged under section 322A of the Criminal Code that concerns sexual offences by male persons against juvenile males over the age of 16 years and under the age of 21 years? (2) How many cases involve persons engaged in a continuing consensual relationship? (3) How many cases exhibited a predator-victim aspect? (4) In each case - (a) what was the age of the juvenile male involved; and (b) what was the age of the offender? Hon N.D. GRIFFITHS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) The information requested is not stored in a manner by the Western Australia Police Service to enable the question to be readily answered. To extract the data would require physical checking and assessment of each offence record, a task that would consume large amounts of policing resources and possibly take weeks to perform.
(2) How many cases involve persons engaged in a continuing consensual relationship? (3) How many cases exhibited a predator-victim aspect? (4) In each case - (a) what was the age of the juvenile male involved; and (b) what was the age of the offender? Hon N.D. GRIFFITHS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) The information requested is not stored in a manner by the Western Australia Police Service to enable the question to be readily answered. To extract the data would require physical checking and assessment of each offence record, a task that would consume large amounts of policing resources and possibly take weeks to perform.
(3) How many cases exhibited a predator-victim aspect? (4) In each case - (a) what was the age of the juvenile male involved; and (b) what was the age of the offender? Hon N.D. GRIFFITHS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) The information requested is not stored in a manner by the Western Australia Police Service to enable the question to be readily answered. To extract the data would require physical checking and assessment of each offence record, a task that would consume large amounts of policing resources and possibly take weeks to perform.
(4) In each case - (a) what was the age of the juvenile male involved; and (b) what was the age of the offender? Hon N.D. GRIFFITHS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) The information requested is not stored in a manner by the Western Australia Police Service to enable the question to be readily answered. To extract the data would require physical checking and assessment of each offence record, a task that would consume large amounts of policing resources and possibly take weeks to perform.
(b) what was the age of the offender?
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) The information requested is not stored in a manner by the Western Australia Police Service to enable the question to be readily answered. To extract the data would require physical checking and assessment of each offence record, a task that would consume large amounts of policing resources and possibly take weeks to perform.
(1)-(4) The information requested is not stored in a manner by the Western Australia Police Service to enable the question to be readily answered. To extract the data would require physical checking and assessment of each offence record, a task that would consume large amounts of policing resources and possibly take weeks to perform.
(1) On how many occasions since 1992 have persons been charged under section 322A of the Criminal Code that concerns sexual offences by male persons against juvenile males over the age of 16 years and under the age of 21 years? (2) How many cases involve persons engaged in a continuing consensual relationship? (3) How many cases exhibited a predator-victim aspect? (4) In each case - (a) what was the age of the juvenile male involved; and (b) what was the age of the offender? Hon N.D. GRIFFITHS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) The information requested is not stored in a manner by the Western Australia Police Service to enable the question to be readily answered. To extract the data would require physical checking and assessment of each offence record, a task that would consume large amounts of policing resources and possibly take weeks to perform.
(2) How many cases involve persons engaged in a continuing consensual relationship? (3) How many cases exhibited a predator-victim aspect? (4) In each case - (a) what was the age of the juvenile male involved; and (b) what was the age of the offender? Hon N.D. GRIFFITHS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) The information requested is not stored in a manner by the Western Australia Police Service to enable the question to be readily answered. To extract the data would require physical checking and assessment of each offence record, a task that would consume large amounts of policing resources and possibly take weeks to perform.
(3) How many cases exhibited a predator-victim aspect? (4) In each case - (a) what was the age of the juvenile male involved; and (b) what was the age of the offender? Hon N.D. GRIFFITHS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) The information requested is not stored in a manner by the Western Australia Police Service to enable the question to be readily answered. To extract the data would require physical checking and assessment of each offence record, a task that would consume large amounts of policing resources and possibly take weeks to perform.
(4) In each case - (a) what was the age of the juvenile male involved; and (b) what was the age of the offender? Hon N.D. GRIFFITHS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) The information requested is not stored in a manner by the Western Australia Police Service to enable the question to be readily answered. To extract the data would require physical checking and assessment of each offence record, a task that would consume large amounts of policing resources and possibly take weeks to perform.
(b) what was the age of the offender?
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(4) The information requested is not stored in a manner by the Western Australia Police Service to enable the question to be readily answered. To extract the data would require physical checking and assessment of each offence record, a task that would consume large amounts of policing resources and possibly take weeks to perform.
(1)-(4) The information requested is not stored in a manner by the Western Australia Police Service to enable the question to be readily answered. To extract the data would require physical checking and assessment of each offence record, a task that would consume large amounts of policing resources and possibly take weeks to perform.
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