Thank you.
Through you, Chair, I do have 2023 stats for year-end, and of course for the year to date right now.
I can tell you that as of this particular time, year to date, this year we've had 1,132 calls related to domestic violence or intimate partner violence. The reason I'm going to suggest that this is significant is that we are a community of 100,000 people, and as we know, crime rates are on a per 100,000 per capita basis. This is a pretty good demographic and a pretty good community to use as a measure.
Last year, we had 1,457. Our community includes a university and a college. When I say we're not immune to the types of offences that happen in larger urban centres, I'd say it's largely because of not only the population base that we have, but also the students who come to our community. We've heard here today that our students are not immune to this type of violence either.
Out of those 1,132 so far this year, 238 have resulted in charges.
Now, this is difficult, and that's not to say that the rest were not intimate partner violence, but they come in as what's called a “domestic violence occurrence”. In a community like most policed communities, that occurrence incorporates family violence, which may not in fact trigger what we would look at as a mandatory charge related to domestic violence. It could be siblings who are called in, or it might be a parent with a child. However, for intimate partner violence, there have been 238 charges as a result of those calls.
Hopefully, that's what you asked for.