The most common crimes reported to and recorded by police in Western Australia are classified as offences against property (including burglary, property damage/arson, and motor vehicle theft), and offences against the person (including assault, sex offences, and robbery). Other less commonly reported crimes include drug offences, fraud and receiving, and good order (mostly trespass and vagrancy), while other sundry offences (mostly offences against justice procedures) make up the remainder (Fernandez and Loh (2001: 10-12). No detailed data on offences reported to police in the Northern East Kimberley exist in the public domain. However, rates of reporting for offences against the person and property offences in 2001 are available for the Kimberley as a whole. Taken together, these reveal that the Kimberley has the second highest rate of such offences (200 per thousand) of all regions in Western Australia, with the State average at 170 per thousand (Fernandez and Loh 2001: 18). These rates for the Kimberley region can be used to estimate the number of reported offences in the study region on the (untested) assumption that these rates are consistent across the Kimberley. Thus, as shown in Table 8.1, the rate of reporting assaults in the Kimberley was 26.4 per thousand. Applied to the usual resident population of the study region this translates to a total of 195 such offences. Table 8.1 also shows the estimated number of offences for all broad category offences against the person and property offences.