❓ Minister Roberts details the success of the NAFIS fingerprint system in solving crimes in regional WA, highlighting increased hit rates and specific case examples.
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Can the minister advise the House how new technology has enhanced the role of fingerprints in solving crime in regional Western Australia since the Gallop Government came to office? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS
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I thank the member for Bunbury for the question and for his interest in policing, particularly in some of the state-of-the-art technology that is now coming on stream in the Police Service, and also thank him for his tireless efforts to improve community safety. In 2001 we introduced a new system known as the national automated fingerprint identification system, more colloquially known as NAFIS. It allows us to match fingerprints obtained from arrested persons with those obtained from crime scenes. The Police Service previously had a very labour intensive system under which most comparisons of fingerprints took many hours to complete. This Government has linked into the national fingerprint database. Nine workstations are situated throughout Western Australia, including in the south west district at the Bunbury scenes of crime office and in the goldfields-Esperance district at the Kalgoorlie scenes of crime office. The new system has been an amazing success. During the three months from July to September this year, 2 013 jobs were searched on NAFIS, resulting in the identification of 623 persons of interest. The average statewide hit rate of about 30 per cent is a massive improvement on the previous hit rate of only five per cent. The amazing success is also occurring within our regional districts. In the same quarter - this will be of interest to the member for Bunbury - south west officers ran 86 searches on NAFIS, which resulted in 27 hits. In the Kimberley, 196 searches were made, with 43 hits; and in Peel, 64 searches were made with 30 hits, a matching rate of almost 50 per cent. These successes are more than just statistics. Real crimes are being solved and real offenders brought to justice. Mr P.D. Omodei: This is a ministerial statement. The SPEAKER: Member for Warren-Blackwood! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I think - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for Bunbury for the question and for his interest in policing, particularly in some of the state-of-the-art technology that is now coming on stream in the Police Service, and also thank him for his tireless efforts to improve community safety. In 2001 we introduced a new system known as the national automated fingerprint identification system, more colloquially known as NAFIS. It allows us to match fingerprints obtained from arrested persons with those obtained from crime scenes. The Police Service previously had a very labour intensive system under which most comparisons of fingerprints took many hours to complete. This Government has linked into the national fingerprint database. Nine workstations are situated throughout Western Australia, including in the south west district at the Bunbury scenes of crime office and in the goldfields-Esperance district at the Kalgoorlie scenes of crime office. The new system has been an amazing success. During the three months from July to September this year, 2 013 jobs were searched on NAFIS, resulting in the identification of 623 persons of interest. The average statewide hit rate of about 30 per cent is a massive improvement on the previous hit rate of only five per cent. The amazing success is also occurring within our regional districts. In the same quarter - this will be of interest to the member for Bunbury - south west officers ran 86 searches on NAFIS, which resulted in 27 hits. In the Kimberley, 196 searches were made, with 43 hits; and in Peel, 64 searches were made with 30 hits, a matching rate of almost 50 per cent. These successes are more than just statistics. Real crimes are being solved and real offenders brought to justice. Mr P.D. Omodei: This is a ministerial statement. The SPEAKER: Member for Warren-Blackwood! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I think - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
I thank the member for Bunbury for the question and for his interest in policing, particularly in some of the state-of-the-art technology that is now coming on stream in the Police Service, and also thank him for his tireless efforts to improve community safety. In 2001 we introduced a new system known as the national automated fingerprint identification system, more colloquially known as NAFIS. It allows us to match fingerprints obtained from arrested persons with those obtained from crime scenes. The Police Service previously had a very labour intensive system under which most comparisons of fingerprints took many hours to complete. This Government has linked into the national fingerprint database. Nine workstations are situated throughout Western Australia, including in the south west district at the Bunbury scenes of crime office and in the goldfields-Esperance district at the Kalgoorlie scenes of crime office. The new system has been an amazing success. During the three months from July to September this year, 2 013 jobs were searched on NAFIS, resulting in the identification of 623 persons of interest. The average statewide hit rate of about 30 per cent is a massive improvement on the previous hit rate of only five per cent. The amazing success is also occurring within our regional districts. In the same quarter - this will be of interest to the member for Bunbury - south west officers ran 86 searches on NAFIS, which resulted in 27 hits. In the Kimberley, 196 searches were made, with 43 hits; and in Peel, 64 searches were made with 30 hits, a matching rate of almost 50 per cent. These successes are more than just statistics. Real crimes are being solved and real offenders brought to justice. Mr P.D. Omodei: This is a ministerial statement. The SPEAKER: Member for Warren-Blackwood! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I think - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
These successes are more than just statistics. Real crimes are being solved and real offenders brought to justice. Mr P.D. Omodei: This is a ministerial statement. The SPEAKER: Member for Warren-Blackwood! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I think - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mr P.D. Omodei: This is a ministerial statement. The SPEAKER: Member for Warren-Blackwood! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I think - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
The SPEAKER: Member for Warren-Blackwood! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I think - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I think - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for Bunbury for the question and for his interest in policing, particularly in some of the state-of-the-art technology that is now coming on stream in the Police Service, and also thank him for his tireless efforts to improve community safety. In 2001 we introduced a new system known as the national automated fingerprint identification system, more colloquially known as NAFIS. It allows us to match fingerprints obtained from arrested persons with those obtained from crime scenes. The Police Service previously had a very labour intensive system under which most comparisons of fingerprints took many hours to complete. This Government has linked into the national fingerprint database. Nine workstations are situated throughout Western Australia, including in the south west district at the Bunbury scenes of crime office and in the goldfields-Esperance district at the Kalgoorlie scenes of crime office. The new system has been an amazing success. During the three months from July to September this year, 2 013 jobs were searched on NAFIS, resulting in the identification of 623 persons of interest. The average statewide hit rate of about 30 per cent is a massive improvement on the previous hit rate of only five per cent. The amazing success is also occurring within our regional districts. In the same quarter - this will be of interest to the member for Bunbury - south west officers ran 86 searches on NAFIS, which resulted in 27 hits. In the Kimberley, 196 searches were made, with 43 hits; and in Peel, 64 searches were made with 30 hits, a matching rate of almost 50 per cent. These successes are more than just statistics. Real crimes are being solved and real offenders brought to justice. Mr P.D. Omodei: This is a ministerial statement. The SPEAKER: Member for Warren-Blackwood! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I think - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
I thank the member for Bunbury for the question and for his interest in policing, particularly in some of the state-of-the-art technology that is now coming on stream in the Police Service, and also thank him for his tireless efforts to improve community safety. In 2001 we introduced a new system known as the national automated fingerprint identification system, more colloquially known as NAFIS. It allows us to match fingerprints obtained from arrested persons with those obtained from crime scenes. The Police Service previously had a very labour intensive system under which most comparisons of fingerprints took many hours to complete. This Government has linked into the national fingerprint database. Nine workstations are situated throughout Western Australia, including in the south west district at the Bunbury scenes of crime office and in the goldfields-Esperance district at the Kalgoorlie scenes of crime office. The new system has been an amazing success. During the three months from July to September this year, 2 013 jobs were searched on NAFIS, resulting in the identification of 623 persons of interest. The average statewide hit rate of about 30 per cent is a massive improvement on the previous hit rate of only five per cent. The amazing success is also occurring within our regional districts. In the same quarter - this will be of interest to the member for Bunbury - south west officers ran 86 searches on NAFIS, which resulted in 27 hits. In the Kimberley, 196 searches were made, with 43 hits; and in Peel, 64 searches were made with 30 hits, a matching rate of almost 50 per cent. These successes are more than just statistics. Real crimes are being solved and real offenders brought to justice. Mr P.D. Omodei: This is a ministerial statement. The SPEAKER: Member for Warren-Blackwood! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I think - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
These successes are more than just statistics. Real crimes are being solved and real offenders brought to justice. Mr P.D. Omodei: This is a ministerial statement. The SPEAKER: Member for Warren-Blackwood! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I think - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mr P.D. Omodei: This is a ministerial statement. The SPEAKER: Member for Warren-Blackwood! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I think - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
The SPEAKER: Member for Warren-Blackwood! Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I think - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I think - Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mr P.D. Omodei interjected. The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
The SPEAKER: I call the member for Warren-Blackwood to order for the first time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: Although these statistics are very impressive, a couple of individual cases highlight the tremendous benefit of NAFIS to policing and the community. The first case occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and two counts of deprivation of liberty. Two male complainants were seriously assaulted by outlaw motorcycle gang members. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: They were locked in the boot of a car, driven to the bush, where it is believed - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
The SPEAKER: I call to order the members for Greenough and Darling Range. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: As I was saying, OMCG members seriously assaulted two male complainants. They were locked in the boot of a car and driven to the bush, where it is believed they were to be murdered. Thankfully, they escaped. The car was examined and fingerprints were extracted. They were run through NAFIS the same day, and the fingerprints were identified as those of Coffin Cheater Motorcycle Club, or OMCG, members. Last month, two offenders were found guilty of the offences and each was sentenced to five years imprisonment. That is a significant result for the community. Although members opposite might want to drown out what I am saying by interjecting, the fact of the matter is that we are catching very serious criminals involved in very serious crimes. The reason we are solving those crimes is the investment of this Government into the national fingerprint database and into resources for country regions like Bunbury and Kalgoorlie. The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
The second case also occurred in the south west district and involved two counts of sexual assault and two counts of deprivation of liberty. I think this example will be very reassuring to many women in the community. A 25-year-old woman arriving home from shopping was asked by an unknown male walking past her house if he could use her phone to call a taxi. The woman let the offender in, whereupon he threatened her with a knife and repeatedly sexually assaulted her over a period of two hours. He then left, ran to a car park and forced another woman to drive him out of town. She was also threatened with a knife and sexually assaulted. The scene at the house was examined that day and fingerprints were extracted. They were searched on NAFIS and identified. That same night, the offender was arrested and charged with offences. He was subsequently found guilty of all charges in a District Court trial. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mr M.J. Birney interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The member for Kalgoorlie interjects that the offender received home detention for a month. It was the Liberal Government that put in place home detention for prisoners. This Government has just abolished it. Members opposite do not know the facts. Neither the member for Nedlands nor the member for Kalgoorlie does anything but talk; they do not listen. Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I know my colleagues on this side of the House would like me to give more examples, and they are very interesting. They want to know that our Police Service is properly resourced to catch the people responsible for serious crimes in the community. The resources we have given the Police Service and the dedication of our officers means that we are solving crimes that previously would have never been solved.
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