Question regarding the number of people incarcerated in WA police lock-ups in 2014 solely for cutting out fines, broken down by gender. The answer states that providing this information would be extremely resource intensive and its accuracy unverifiable.

AnsweredQoN 4139Legislative Assembly
Asked
18 June 2015
Portfolio
Police

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For the calendar year 2014, I ask: (a) how many people were incarcerated in police lock ups solely for the purposes of cutting out fines: (i) how many of these were male; and (ii) how may were female?

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Answered
12 August 2015
Responded by
Minister for Police
Response time
55 days
The provision of the requested information would require a manual review, and reconciliation between two systems, of every custody record in 2014. This is an extremely resource intensive process.
In addition, as such a process requires some assumptions to be made in the matching of information, WA Police cannot verify the accuracy of any information obtained.

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