Police deal with a domestic violence matter every 2 minutes.

By CLARE BLUMER

Australian police deal with an estimated 657 domestic violence matters on average every day of the year. That’s one every two minutes.

Those figures are based on data provided by police services around the country about how often their officers work on domestic violence cases.

Overall, the count is 239,846 per year around the country.

There is no standard definition of domestic and family violence across all jurisdictions in Australia and no standard way for counting the number of police call-outs to situations related to domestic violence.

The details of the data being captured varies across jurisdictions and can include:

attendance at suspected domestic and family violence incidents;
domestic and family violence court orders made by the police;
domestic and family violence assaults (encompassing threats and physical violence); and
associated agencies reporting domestic and family violence to the police.

The breakdown of data is as follows.

	Date range	Description	by hour	by day	by week	by year
Victoria	2014	Family incidents	8	187	1,307	68,134*
Queensland	2013-14	Domestic and family violence occurrences	8	181	1,266	66,016*
NSW	2014	Domestic violence related incidents	7	159	1,115	58,140*
Tasmania	2013-14	Family violence arguments and incidents	0	11	78	4,071*
WA	2013-14	Domestic assaults	2	41	289	15,095*
ACT	2013-14	Police attending domestic violence incidents	0	9	63	3,309*
NT	2014	Domestic violence assaults	0	12	81	4,224*
SA	2015	Domestic-related taskings	2	57	400*	20,857
Australia			27	657	4,600	239,846