Aggravated Assault - Nightcliff
Where: Progress Drive, Casuarina, the street the release names · See the street on the map
The release
A 57-year-old male has been arrested following a domestic violence incident at Nightcliff last night.
Around 11:10pm, the Joint Emergency Services Communication Centre received a report of a male assaulting a female during an altercation on Progress Drive.
Casuarina General Duties attended and arrested the male. A 54-year-old female was conveyed to Royal Darwin Hospital by St John Ambulance for assessment.
A crime scene was established and investigations are ongoing.
— NT PoliceCrime in the Darwin council area
Darwin is a council area in Northern Territory with about 90,035 residents. It has a Crime Score 82 out of 100 (very high), 21st of 362 councils nationally.
The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by assault (89th percentile), homicide (87th percentile), break-ins (82nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 83.
- Violent
- 3,023 per 100k
- Property
- 6,131 per 100k
- Break-ins
- 631 per 100k
- Theft
- 2,914 per 100k
See the full Darwin crime profile
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