Arrests - Assault workers - Coconut Grove
The release
Around 2:20pm this afternoon, the Joint Emergency Services Communication Centre received numerous calls of a large disturbance at a shopping centre in Coconut Grove.
The incident is understood to have began when a 38-year-old female was directed to leave after previously being issued a trespass notice.
She allegedly spat at and slapped a security guard and a 43-year-old female assaulted another security guard and the centre’s cleaner.
Both females continued with disorderly behaviour before multiple police units responded and arrested them. They are expected to be charged with various offences.
An additional two males and a female were also arrested at the scene, and later released with infringement notices for Disorderly Behaviour.
— 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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