Reduce crime

Subject to review post-trial 31 August, with consideration of permanent availability for personal self-defence.

Police Public Safety Officers are sworn officers who enhance community safety through highly visible, flexible patrols, which focus on reducing alcohol-related harm and antisocial behaviour across the bus networks, public housing properties, and public places.

As part of the Corrections Infrastructure Master Plan, the Northern Territory Government is investing in modern prison work camps in Katherine and Darwin.

For more information, go to the Department of Logistics and Infrastructure website.

To keep Territorians safe by delivering correctional services that promote accountability and rehabilitation and strengthen pathways to reduced offending.

Youth boot camps are designed as an alternative option to detention for young people aged 10 to 17 years old.

Industry Skills and Employment (ISE) delivers practical training and employment readiness activities that support rehabilitation and safer reintegration from custody into work.

Sentenced to a Job 2.0 connects eligible prisoners and offenders with real work opportunities while they serve their sentence.

Go to the Department of Corrections website's to read about the:

• Corrections strategic plan 2024 to 2028
• Industries, skills and employment initiative.

The new Circuit Breaker Program provides intensive support to young people aged 10 to 17 years old and their families in Alice Springs, Katherine and Darwin.

For more information, go to the Department of Children and Families website.

When it comes to bright futures, every school day counts.

School attendance and engagement officers work alongside families to keep students engaged, supported and learning every day.

Families needing support to get their children to school can call the student attendance hotline on 1800 206 317.

For more information, go to the Northern Territory Government website.

New sentencing laws introduce the strongest penalties for domestic violence murders, including mandatory life imprisonment with a minimum of 25 years before parole.

The reforms reinforce community safety, put victims first and hold perpetrators of the most serious violence to account.