Mr Harriss – What is a good criminal?
Mr DEAN – A good criminal is a criminal who continually commits crime and does not get caught. Mr Parkinson – What’s a bad criminal? Mr DEAN – One who commits crime and gets caught. Mr Wilkinson – Defence lawyers often call them birthdays – many happy returns. Members laughing. Mr DEAN – Crime is being reduced generally across the board and that comes out in this report and it comes out in all of the other statistical data that is used by police and is quite often provided to the media. It is certainly good to see that because the public quite often become the victims of crime in some way or another and it is very important that we continually see a reduction in crime. But having mentioned that, recently in New South Wales, in relation to crime – there has also been quite a large reduction in crime there – when a survey was done of the members of the public, the perception of the public was that there had been no reduction and that in fact crime had increased. It was interesting becaus
