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Effective management of serious police misconduct: A machine learning analysis

Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice

How police body-worn cameras can facilitate misidentification in domestic and family violence responses

Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice

Understanding and responding to alcohol-related social harms in Australia: Options for policing

NDLERF reports and discussion papers

"A discussion paper prepared at the request of the Conference of Commissioners of Police of Australasia and the South West Pacific Region."

Police employee representation in New South Wales, part 1A: The beginning through 1960

Archive

Use and misuse of prescription drugs among police detainees

Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice

National Police Custody Survey 1992: preliminary report

Deaths in Custody Australia

 

 

Reporting crime to the police

Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice

Policing, volatile substance misuse, and Indigenous Australians

NDLERF monograph

Making sense of partnerships: A study of police and housing department collaboration for tackling drug and related problems on public housing estates

NDLERF monograph

Drug Use Monitoring in Australia: 2003 annual report on drug use among police detainees

Research and public policy series

 

 

Drug use trends among police detainees

Crime facts info

The Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program is a crime monitoring program that focuses on illegal drug use amongst police detainees. It involves the collection of self-report and urinalysis data from people detained in seven police stations and watchhouses across Australia, with reporting on a quarterly basis. The figure below shows the percentage of adult male detainees testing positive to selected illicit drugs between 1999 (when DUMA began) and 2005. Cannabis is the drug detainees are most likely to test positive to, followed by methylamphetamine and then heroin.

Mental health and drug dependency amongst police detainees

Crime facts info

The 2004 Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) annual report found that a higher proportion of adult police detainees suffered from psychological distress than occurs in the general population. This level of distress increased if the detainee was dependent on either drugs or alcohol. The Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) was used to measure the level of anxiety and depressive symptoms a person experienced in the 30 days prior to interview. The method identifies four levels of psychological distress: low, moderate, high and very high.

Missing children: advice, information and preventive action for parents, teachers and counsellors

Crime prevention series

Foreword

Alcohol and disorderly conduct on Friday and Saturday nights: Findings from the DUMA program

Research in practice

Key findings

  • The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) interviewed 161 offenders detained for disorderly conduct offences on Friday and Saturday nights as part of the Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) program. Analysis of new questions about alcohol use provides valuable information to support a range of alcohol harm reduction strategies, including Operation Unite.

Drug use monitoring in Australia: Drug use among police detainees, 2018

Statistical Report

Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Acronyms
  • Abstract
  • Drug Use Monitoring in Australia program
    • Data collection
    • The questionnaire
    • Urinalysis
  • Drug and alcohol use
    • Amphetamines
    • Cannabis
    • Opioids
    • Benzodiazepines
    • Cocaine
    • Reported alcohol use
  • Drug market indicators
    • Methamphetamine
    • Cannabis
    • Heroin
    • Ecstasy
  • Drug-crime attribution
  • References