Operation Unite (provisional stats)

Statistics for Operation Unite

Please NOTE this is only a partial tally for the joint Australia New Zealand statistics. The total will be available later today. A release will also be issued later today.

Joint Australasian for Operation Unite
Day Police deployed Arrests Assaults Licensing breaches
11 Dec 2761 847 135 362
12 Dec 2754 968 155 188
Total 5515 1815 290 550

New Zealand statistics for Operation Unite

Number of staff working on Op Unite 1139
Number of licensing breaches 47
number of liquor infringement issued 139
Number of arrests for alcohol related offending 369
Number of assaults 115
Number of drink drivers detected 291
Number of vehicles checked at alcohol checkpoints 35690

Statistics relating to alcohol

In New Zealand the total crime cost due to harmful alcohol and drug use is estimated at $1.1 billion. This includes costs to the victims of crime, the use of police resources, court related costs and prison.
The total social cost of harmful alcohol and drug misuse for the year 05/06 was estimated at $6.881 billion

Harmful alcohol use cost New Zealand an estimated $5.296 billion in 05/06.

It is estimated that police spent $306.3m or 32% of the police budget on Alcohol and drug related offending / issues in 05/06. On alcohol only, this equalled 172.2m, 18 % of the police budget.
At least a third of all police recorded offences in 07/08 were committed where the offender had consumed alcohol prior to committing the offence.

At least a third of recorded violence offences and family violence incidents in 07/08 were committed where the offender had consumed alcohol prior to committing the offence.

With regards to serious offending, such as homicides and incidents where force was used by police, approximately half of the alleged offenders or victims were affected by alcohol.
On an average day:

• 62 individuals are either driven home or detained in police custody due to their state of intoxication.


• 342 offences occur where police note alcohol was involved in the offending including:
  30 offences for breach of a councils liquor ban
  100 offences for drink driving
  Approximately 5,923 compulsory breath tests and 2743 mobile breath tests are undertaken
  41 licensed premises are visited to monitor compliance with the Sale of Liquor Act.

In Australia, alcohol-related crime is estimated to cost AUD $1.7billion a year, with AUD $750m alone spent on policing.
Alcohol-related harm is a major cause of death and hospitalisation, with 3000 lives lost a year and 65,000 hospitalisations.

Forty percent of people detained by police attribute their offence to alcohol consumption. A substantial proportion of assaults are alcohol-related with a significant number of hospitalisations each year associated with these assaults.

ENDS

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