The COUNTED - 2026
The issue
SCROLL for POLICE/CORRECTIONS or MEDIA reporting timelines
If you are aware of a police or corrections related death not currently reflected within The Counted, contact ANZLEAC4PRD to ensure Dashboard accuracy.
Provided as part of The NET 000 Challenge this resource petition serves to confront and reform the tragic reality of police-led mental health emergency fatalities.Respectfully acknowledging those who have passed, and the loved ones they have left behind, Australia New Zealand Lived Experience Advisory Council for Police-Related Deaths (ANZLEAC4PRD) submits to the Senate its ever evolving efforts to amplify the voices of those impacted at the highest level of risk within the nation’s justice systems.
The Counted - Australia 2026 data dashboard is a crucial feature of the Operation WATCH OVER ME movement. It is designed as a real time holistic sector response to complement the parliamentary Standing Orders 637, which requires the Attorney General to provide quarterly reporting on deaths in custody.
By reporting police suicides, police operational deaths, non fatal shootings and deaths in custody together, ANZLEAC4PRD seeks to explore patterns across these categories, including Work Health and Safety gaps. This also includes examining barriers created by officer employment classification along with industrial agreements or EBAs, embedding the principle that what gets measured gets managed.
A recent NSW Auditor General Report found that nearly 75 per cent of NSW Police compensation costs over a five-year period were linked to psychological injury claims. NSW Police spent more than $1.7 billion on those claims between mid-2019 and mid-2024. The report found that NSW Police had failed to adequately investigate whetherworkplace hazards, fatigue, role overload, burnout or psychosocial stressors contributed to the 171 critical incidents and deaths recorded between mid 2019 and mid 2024.
‘Hush money, or confidentiality clauses in settlement deeds. point towards a systemic misallocation of public resources, where funding is repeatedly directed to managing the consequences of harm rather than preventing it. These are not marginal costs. They represent a recurrent draw in the tens of millions on public funds at a level that would comfortably resource significant preventive infrastructure.
While Senate reporting remains important, it is retrospective in nature. The Counted provides a more immediate, accessible and independent picture of police related critical incidents, deaths in custody, police shootings and officer fatalities across Australia.
Its purpose is not only to count deaths after they occur, but to identify patterns, risk factors and opportunities for prevention before further harm occurs.
In this way, The Counted supports transparency, strengthens public confidence and reinforces a central proposition: the preservation of life is not a retrospective objective. It is an operational duty.
We invite you to help build awareness around safer police responses, mental health emergencies and the right to life.
You may also be interested in;
ROYAL COMMISSION Into Police Shootings In QLD
SELF- REPORTING citizen researcher - National Coroner’s Court Listing Dashboard project
UNGAGGING AUSTRALIA Suppression REFORM
Your support helps grow the conversation around police-led mental health responses, real time oversight, the OPCAT National Preventive Mechanism and the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Recommendation 35
5 Aug NSW
Critical incident declared after driver dies following crash - Appin
____________________
27 July VIC
Death in custody at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre | Corrections Victoria
25 July QLD
Two people shot by police during altercation in Cairns - ABC News
24 July QLD
Police officer shot while responding to call on the Fraser Coast - ABC News
23 July QLD
Death in police custody, Highgate Hill - Queensland Police News
23 July SA
Investigations underway into death of Aboriginal man in custody in Adelaide CBD - ABC News
21 July NSW
Critical incident declared after man dies during police operation- Riverina
20 July QLD
Death in custody, Brisbane City - Queensland Police News
19 July NSW
Critical incident declared after man dies following cross border pursuit
16 July NSW
Aboriginal man, 21, dies at Clarence Correctional Centre in Grafton
6 July QLD
Woman, 42, dies in Townsville prison cell
The death of a female prisoner at Townsville Women’s Correctional Centre is being treated as non-suspicious.
_________________________
26 June QLD
NON FATAL SHOOTINGS Police involved shooting, Woodhill - Logan
25 June NSW
NON FATAL SHOOTING - Critical incident declared after man shot by police - Fairfield
20 June WA
Aboriginal man dies in custody after transfer from Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison
12 June NSW
7 June SA
SA Police investigating after man dies after 'ineffective' taser arrest - ABC News
4 June WA
A 29-year-old Aboriginal man has died in prison in WA | SBS NITV
3 June NSW
Man dies in custody after crashing ute into Mudgee police station
________________
31 May QLD
Queensland police defend decision to shoot dog after it was hit by patrol car
24 May QLD
Fatal police involved shooting, Narangba
- Former Military Officer Shot Dead By Police
- Troubled former military officer is revealed as the armed man shot dead by police outside suburban Brisbane home | Daily Mail Online
23 May NSW
UPDATED: Three dead after two car crash - Sans Souci
21 May QLD
Here's what happens next after woman hit by police car in Cairns - ABC News
10 May QLD
Wanted teen dies in balcony fall after police arrive
8 May NSW
Inmate dies after stabbing at Wellington Correctional Facility near Dubbo - ABC News
5 May NSW
Driver dies near Griffith after police chase and head-on crash
5 May NSW
1 May QLD
First Nations man dies in custody at Lotus Glen Correctional Centre in Far North Queensland
_______________
23 April NSW
18 April WA
Second Aboriginal woman dies in WA's Bandyup prison... | National Indigenous Times
17 April WA
54-year-old non-Indigenous male prisoner died at Dowerin Work Camp
10 April Australia STANDING ORDERS 637
6 April NSW
POLICE OFFICER - Critical incident declared after death of officer - Bateau Bay
- Sergeant Anthony Rex Baillie, 56
- Why We Need Mandatory Reporting of Police Officer Suicide
- Police mental health: Queensland cop Kym took her own life at work. Former officers say it exposes a deeper problem | 7NEWS
5 April TAS
NON FATAL SHOOTING - Man shot in chest by police GOODWOOD, HOBART
4 April QLD
Family seeks answers as mother dies in custody
1 April QLD
NON FATAL SHOOTING Police shoot man during welfare check in Brisbane's north - ABC News
_______________
30 Mar NT
Man, 19, dies after suffering 'serious stab wound' in Katherine overnight
30 Mar VIC
28 Mar NT
Death - Darwin Correctional Centre | NT Police, Fire & Emergency Services
24 Mar NT
Man dies in NT police custody after arrest and detainment in police car cage in Darwin - ABC News
21 Mar QLD
NON FATAL SHOOTING - Police shoot man in 20s in Logan Central, south of Brisbane - ABC News
16 Mar WA
Young Aboriginal woman dies in WA prison | National Indigenous Times
4 Mar QLD
NON FATAL SHOOTING - Police shoot allegedly armed man on Sunshine Coast after car crash - ABC News
3 Mar NSW
SHOOTING - Man shot dead by police in Potts Point after threatening officers with weapon
3 Mar QLD
SHOOTING -Man dies after being shot by police during welfare check in Brisbane's east - ABC News
___________
28 Feb QLD
Prisoner - Townsville Correctional Centre
14 Feb NSW
Man charged after two women die in crash following police pursuit in Sydney's south-west - ABC News
7 Feb SA
6 Feb NSW
____________
27 Jan WA
Advocate believes system is broken after another death in custody in Kalgoorlie-Boulder - ABC News
16 Jan NSW
SHOOTING - Man armed with bow and arrow shot dead by NSW police | New South Wales | The Guardian
14 Jan QLD
9 Jan VIC
8 Jan NSW
SHOOTING - Man shot dead by NSW police during siege on NSW Central Coast - ABC News
6 Jan NSW
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The issue
SCROLL for POLICE/CORRECTIONS or MEDIA reporting timelines
If you are aware of a police or corrections related death not currently reflected within The Counted, contact ANZLEAC4PRD to ensure Dashboard accuracy.
Provided as part of The NET 000 Challenge this resource petition serves to confront and reform the tragic reality of police-led mental health emergency fatalities.Respectfully acknowledging those who have passed, and the loved ones they have left behind, Australia New Zealand Lived Experience Advisory Council for Police-Related Deaths (ANZLEAC4PRD) submits to the Senate its ever evolving efforts to amplify the voices of those impacted at the highest level of risk within the nation’s justice systems.
The Counted - Australia 2026 data dashboard is a crucial feature of the Operation WATCH OVER ME movement. It is designed as a real time holistic sector response to complement the parliamentary Standing Orders 637, which requires the Attorney General to provide quarterly reporting on deaths in custody.
By reporting police suicides, police operational deaths, non fatal shootings and deaths in custody together, ANZLEAC4PRD seeks to explore patterns across these categories, including Work Health and Safety gaps. This also includes examining barriers created by officer employment classification along with industrial agreements or EBAs, embedding the principle that what gets measured gets managed.
A recent NSW Auditor General Report found that nearly 75 per cent of NSW Police compensation costs over a five-year period were linked to psychological injury claims. NSW Police spent more than $1.7 billion on those claims between mid-2019 and mid-2024. The report found that NSW Police had failed to adequately investigate whetherworkplace hazards, fatigue, role overload, burnout or psychosocial stressors contributed to the 171 critical incidents and deaths recorded between mid 2019 and mid 2024.
‘Hush money, or confidentiality clauses in settlement deeds. point towards a systemic misallocation of public resources, where funding is repeatedly directed to managing the consequences of harm rather than preventing it. These are not marginal costs. They represent a recurrent draw in the tens of millions on public funds at a level that would comfortably resource significant preventive infrastructure.
While Senate reporting remains important, it is retrospective in nature. The Counted provides a more immediate, accessible and independent picture of police related critical incidents, deaths in custody, police shootings and officer fatalities across Australia.
Its purpose is not only to count deaths after they occur, but to identify patterns, risk factors and opportunities for prevention before further harm occurs.
In this way, The Counted supports transparency, strengthens public confidence and reinforces a central proposition: the preservation of life is not a retrospective objective. It is an operational duty.
We invite you to help build awareness around safer police responses, mental health emergencies and the right to life.
You may also be interested in;
ROYAL COMMISSION Into Police Shootings In QLD
SELF- REPORTING citizen researcher - National Coroner’s Court Listing Dashboard project
UNGAGGING AUSTRALIA Suppression REFORM
Your support helps grow the conversation around police-led mental health responses, real time oversight, the OPCAT National Preventive Mechanism and the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Recommendation 35
5 Aug NSW
Critical incident declared after driver dies following crash - Appin
____________________
27 July VIC
Death in custody at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre | Corrections Victoria
25 July QLD
Two people shot by police during altercation in Cairns - ABC News
24 July QLD
Police officer shot while responding to call on the Fraser Coast - ABC News
23 July QLD
Death in police custody, Highgate Hill - Queensland Police News
23 July SA
Investigations underway into death of Aboriginal man in custody in Adelaide CBD - ABC News
21 July NSW
Critical incident declared after man dies during police operation- Riverina
20 July QLD
Death in custody, Brisbane City - Queensland Police News
19 July NSW
Critical incident declared after man dies following cross border pursuit
16 July NSW
Aboriginal man, 21, dies at Clarence Correctional Centre in Grafton
6 July QLD
Woman, 42, dies in Townsville prison cell
The death of a female prisoner at Townsville Women’s Correctional Centre is being treated as non-suspicious.
_________________________
26 June QLD
NON FATAL SHOOTINGS Police involved shooting, Woodhill - Logan
25 June NSW
NON FATAL SHOOTING - Critical incident declared after man shot by police - Fairfield
20 June WA
Aboriginal man dies in custody after transfer from Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison
12 June NSW
7 June SA
SA Police investigating after man dies after 'ineffective' taser arrest - ABC News
4 June WA
A 29-year-old Aboriginal man has died in prison in WA | SBS NITV
3 June NSW
Man dies in custody after crashing ute into Mudgee police station
________________
31 May QLD
Queensland police defend decision to shoot dog after it was hit by patrol car
24 May QLD
Fatal police involved shooting, Narangba
- Former Military Officer Shot Dead By Police
- Troubled former military officer is revealed as the armed man shot dead by police outside suburban Brisbane home | Daily Mail Online
23 May NSW
UPDATED: Three dead after two car crash - Sans Souci
21 May QLD
Here's what happens next after woman hit by police car in Cairns - ABC News
10 May QLD
Wanted teen dies in balcony fall after police arrive
8 May NSW
Inmate dies after stabbing at Wellington Correctional Facility near Dubbo - ABC News
5 May NSW
Driver dies near Griffith after police chase and head-on crash
5 May NSW
1 May QLD
First Nations man dies in custody at Lotus Glen Correctional Centre in Far North Queensland
_______________
23 April NSW
18 April WA
Second Aboriginal woman dies in WA's Bandyup prison... | National Indigenous Times
17 April WA
54-year-old non-Indigenous male prisoner died at Dowerin Work Camp
10 April Australia STANDING ORDERS 637
6 April NSW
POLICE OFFICER - Critical incident declared after death of officer - Bateau Bay
- Sergeant Anthony Rex Baillie, 56
- Why We Need Mandatory Reporting of Police Officer Suicide
- Police mental health: Queensland cop Kym took her own life at work. Former officers say it exposes a deeper problem | 7NEWS
5 April TAS
NON FATAL SHOOTING - Man shot in chest by police GOODWOOD, HOBART
4 April QLD
Family seeks answers as mother dies in custody
1 April QLD
NON FATAL SHOOTING Police shoot man during welfare check in Brisbane's north - ABC News
_______________
30 Mar NT
Man, 19, dies after suffering 'serious stab wound' in Katherine overnight
30 Mar VIC
28 Mar NT
Death - Darwin Correctional Centre | NT Police, Fire & Emergency Services
24 Mar NT
Man dies in NT police custody after arrest and detainment in police car cage in Darwin - ABC News
21 Mar QLD
NON FATAL SHOOTING - Police shoot man in 20s in Logan Central, south of Brisbane - ABC News
16 Mar WA
Young Aboriginal woman dies in WA prison | National Indigenous Times
4 Mar QLD
NON FATAL SHOOTING - Police shoot allegedly armed man on Sunshine Coast after car crash - ABC News
3 Mar NSW
SHOOTING - Man shot dead by police in Potts Point after threatening officers with weapon
3 Mar QLD
SHOOTING -Man dies after being shot by police during welfare check in Brisbane's east - ABC News
___________
28 Feb QLD
Prisoner - Townsville Correctional Centre
14 Feb NSW
Man charged after two women die in crash following police pursuit in Sydney's south-west - ABC News
7 Feb SA
6 Feb NSW
____________
27 Jan WA
Advocate believes system is broken after another death in custody in Kalgoorlie-Boulder - ABC News
16 Jan NSW
SHOOTING - Man armed with bow and arrow shot dead by NSW police | New South Wales | The Guardian
14 Jan QLD
9 Jan VIC
8 Jan NSW
SHOOTING - Man shot dead by NSW police during siege on NSW Central Coast - ABC News
6 Jan NSW
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Petition created on 25 April 2026