Completed
This inquiry was completed in the 54th parliament.
For more information on this inquiry, contact the Committees office:
Phone: (03) 8682 2800
Email: cso@parliament.vic.gov.au
For more information on this inquiry, contact the Committees office:
Phone: (03) 8682 2800
Email: cso@parliament.vic.gov.au
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:
a. consider the appropriateness of the existing law in Victoria relating to public drunkenness;
b. identify any law reform the Committee considers necessary to deal with public drunkenness;
c. 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:
a. approaches taken to this issue in other Australian jurisdictions;
b. the Final Report (published in 1991) of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody;
c. such other legislation, case law, reports and materials as are relevant to the Inquiry.
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:
a. consider the appropriateness of the existing law in Victoria relating to public drunkenness;
b. identify any law reform the Committee considers necessary to deal with public drunkenness;
c. 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:
a. approaches taken to this issue in other Australian jurisdictions;
b. the Final Report (published in 1991) of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody;
c. such other legislation, case law, reports and materials as are relevant to the Inquiry.