Police intelligence comes in a range of forms and is designed to address different functional needs, including supporting an agency’s tactical, operational and/or strategic objectives. Intelligence is a collection of different data that has been analysed and interpreted to enhance…
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RSSBulletin 14: Raising awareness about cannabis, its use and impact on health and wellbeing among Indigenous Australians
John Howard , Julia Butt , Tracey Wright , Melissa Norberg , Jan Copeland , Ted Wilkes National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre,…
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RSS2012 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Music competition now open!
Click here to download an entry form for this year's competition. The winner will receive $5000 and a two-day workshop with Skinnyfish Music to professionally record their song. A runner-up prize…
AIC Bulletins
RSS feed of AIC BulletinsNCPIC produces a range of publications on a variety of cannabis-related topics. These include a regular e-Zine and a Bulletin series. These are available on this website and are emailed to a subscribers' list when they become available.
In addition, the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), one of NCPIC's consortium partners, produces an additional Bulletin series that deals with a range of cannabis-related issues from a criminal justice perspective. The AIC also produces a series of Research into Practice Briefs which can be downloaded below.
Research into practice brief 5: Guidance points to assist police in improving collaboration and partnership-building for more effective cannabis enforcement
Research indicates that traditional policing approaches, such as reactive policing interventions including arrests and seizures, are of only limited effectiveness in addressing drug and drug-related crime over the longer term, particularly when used in the absence of other more proactive police…
Improving our understanding of Australian cannabis markets
The widespread use and perceived ease of access to cannabis throughout Australia has been extensively documented. Explorations into the cannabis market in Australia have focused largely on attributes of the cannabis product itself, such as its price, availability and potency, supplemented by data on…
Research into practice brief 4: Managing community perceptions of drug problems, crime and policing
The Australian public’s perception that illegal drugs are a problem in their neighbourhood has varied over time, with 57 per cent, 59 per cent and 52 per cent of them believing it to be the case in 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09, respectively (SCRGSP 2010). Public perceptions of trends in crime…
Research into practice brief 3: Tackling cannabis markets in residential settings
The Australian Institute of Criminology’s second Research into Practice Brief (Willis 2010) outlined the types of police interventions found to be the most effective in addressing street-level cannabis markets. Specifically, the most effective interventions were those that were proactive…
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