Crime Management
Key focus areas:
Activities reported under the Crime Management output include the policing response to general crime and other calls for assistance from members of the public. Crime Management also includes crime operations and criminal investigations conducted throughout the State by specialist officers, typically targeting large-scale offences.
General duties police focus on the initial response to calls for service, conducting preliminary investigations and detecting offenders.
Specialist officers in criminal investigation branches, child protection and investigation units and State Crime Operations Command focus on major and organised criminal activity.
Strategies
- Strengthen the capacity and procedures to provide a timely and appropriate response to incidents
- Engage and foster effective partnerships and networks with the community, government agencies and the private sector to minimise, detect, investigate and solve crime
- Reduce the incidence of crime through contemporary policing practices including environmental and crime analysis
- Promote and use intelligence, advanced technology and information systems to allow for effective evidence gathering, investigation and the prevention of criminal activity
- Maximise resources by utilising a cooperative and multidisciplinary approach to crime management
- Promote and demonstrate accountability and commitment to client service by assisting victims, keeping them and other stakeholders informed, and through the prosecution of offenders
- Engage with other law enforcement agencies to target terrorist activity and major criminal enterprises by focusing on major crime and significant criminal and terrorist networks and their assets
Source: Australian Bureau Statistics, Recorded Crime - Victims cat. No. 4510.0
Note that the offences contained in these graphs are defined differently to the QPS definitions. Therefore, they cannot be directly compared with information in the QPS Annual Statistical Review.
In recent years Queensland’s overall crime rates have declined for offences involving property and offences against people. Our crime rates have also compared favourably with the national averages.
