Inquiry into Public Drunkenness

Terms of Reference

Received from the Legislative Assembly
14th March 2000

To the Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee - for inquiry, consideration and report by the first day of the Autumn 2001 Parliamentary sittings into the issue of public drunkenness. In particular, the Committee is to:

consider the appropriateness of the existing law in Victoria relating to public drunkenness;
identify any law reform the Committee considers necessary to deal with public drunkenness;
review the adequacy of existing strategies for dealing with persons arrested for public drunkenness, such as diversion of people from police custody into sobering-up centres.

In conducting the Inquiry the Committee is to have regard to:

approaches taken to this issue in other Australian jurisdictions;
the Final Report (published in 1991) of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody;
such other legislation, case law, reports and materials as are relevant to the Inquiry.

Final Report

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Discussion Paper

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