70 Police Officers Charged for Non-Sexual Offences

Seventy Police officers were among 716 people charged for incidents of serious nonsexual crimes. This was revealed by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions’ 2022 annual non-sexual violence offences statistics between January 1 and December 31, last year.

There were 716 people charged with a total of 918 separate counts of serious crime offences as of December 31, 2022.

Of the 716 accused persons, 72 were under the age of 18 years and 70 were police officers.

The serious offence counts for each month were:

81 in January 55 in February 79 in March

76 in April

80 in May

55 in June

95 in July

96 in August

49 in September 48 in October

176 in November 28 in December

There were 547 victims counts of serious offences.

Of the 547 victims, there were 66 cases where of the 918 separate the accused and victim were related to one another.

A total of 58 cases were withdrawn after discontinuances (Nolle Prosequi) were filed in 2022.

Breakdown of offences:

26 murder

1 aiding and abetting murder

16 attempted murder

7 aiding and abetting attempted murder 5 manslaughter

6 manslaughter arising breach of duty 5 robbery

1 attempted robbery

130 aggravated robbery

9 attempted aggravated robbery 19 burglary

1 attempted burglary

152 aggravated burglary

6 attempted aggravated burglary

182 theft

4 attempted theft

4 receiving stolen property

1 receiving a bribe

4 assault

58 assault causing actual bodily harm 5 assault causing grievous bodily harm 1 common assault

13 serious assault

38 act with intent to cause grievous bodily harm

1 grievous harm

2 attempt to cause grievous harm 9 unlawful wounding

1 attempted wounding

2 wrongful confinement

1 maliciously administering poison with the intent to do harm

3 human trafficking

10 arson

2 attempt to commit arson

7 dangerous driving

8 careless driving

5 driving with excess blood alcohol 2 refusing to undergo breath analysis 4 unlawful cultivation of illicit drugs 12 unlawful possession of illicit drugs 2 unlawful use of illicit drugs

2 unlawful importation of illicit drugs 3 threats at an airport

86 money laundering

4 abuse of office

1 failure to comply with health orders 1 conspiracy to defeat justice

8 general dishonest

1 conspiracy to defraud

9 damaging property

5 resisting arrest

1 disobedience of lawful order

4 breach of DVRO

2 breach of curfew orders

7 criminal trespass

16 criminal intimidation

3 drunk and disorderly

2 disorderly conduct at a police station