Australian Security Confidence Index (ASCI) 2022

Now more than ever before, Australians are increasingly concerned about cyber security, sexual assault and terrorism. Fear of COVID 19, sexual assault, physical assault, robbery, terrorism and a spike in cyber attacks are the key security concerns among Australians in 2022, according to the Australian Security Confidence Index (ASCI).

The annual study, commissioned by the Australian Security Industry Association Ltd (ASIAL) surveyed 1,600 Australians nationwide from all walks of life about their security concerns in a range of contexts, from their own homes and workplaces, to their online activities and when at large in public.

ASCI 2022 Survey Results

ASIAL Security Industry Licensing Report 2022

This year’s ASIAL Security Industry Licensing Report shows a fall of 5,682 individual security licence holders across the country (down 3.7%), highlighting the growing challenge faced by the industry to meet client demand.

ASIAL continues to lobby government across the country to take action to address labour shortages in the industry.

View ASIAL Security Industry Licensing Report

Security 2025

The Security 2025 project was prepared by the Australian Security Research Centre for ASIAL. It reaffirms ASIAL’s mission to support growth and development in the Private Security industry in Australia.

The report provides a profile of where the industry is currently and offers a roadmap of where the Private Security industry is heading – which members, of all sizes, can apply as part of their business planning process. 

A summary of the report is available to download here

Members can access the full report here

ASIAL Security Industry Licensing Report 2021

Prepared by ASIAL Findings from the ASIAL Security Licensing Report 2021 show an increase of almost 4% in the number of licensed security personnel in the past 12 months. Jurisdictions experiencing growth in licence numbers included the ACT, NSW, Northern Territory, Tasmania and West Australia. Queensland, South Australia and Victoria experienced falls in licence numbers. The overall number of security firms/Master Licence holders fell slightly over the year.

ASIAL Security Industry Licensing Report 2021

Australian Security Confidence Index (ASCI)

Prepared by NielsenIQ

More than a third of Australians (36%) feel unsafe during daylight hours, rising to 53% after dark with cybercrime top of the list of national safety concerns. That is the startling finding in the inaugural Australian Security Confidence Index (ASCI) study commissioned by ASIAL, to gauge how safe and secure Australians feel in various situations.

The research sends a powerful message to governments and the security industry about where more action is needed to improve feelings of safety and security, including fears of women in particular about public transport, cinemas, and civic centres.

ASCI Survey Results

Occupational Violence, Aggression and Duty of Care in Australia

Prepared by the Australian Security Research Centre (ASRC)

The Australia Security Research Centre (ASRC) has published a report on a research project into workplace and occupational violence (OVA) in Australia. This report is one tool that can be used to address the observed gap in managing the issues associated with OVA. The research team has investigated prevention and preparation, response, and recovery with regard to OVA) and its impact on mental health across six main industry sectors in Australia.

ASIAL provided support and funding to assist in the preparation of this research project.

Download the OVA report here

ASIAL Security Industry Licensing Report 2020

Prepared by ASIAL

Australia now has almost 150,000 individual security licence holders and over 11,000 security firm/ Master Licence holders according to ASIAL’s Security Licensing Report 2020 published in the March issue of Security Insider magazine 2020.

This report is published annually as of 2020.

ASIAL Security Industry Licensing Report 2020

Other Research Resources

The Australian Bureau of Statistics presents figures each year about victims of selected offences recorded by police.

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/crime-and-justice/recorded-crime-victims/latest-release

Crime hot spots and statistics

Online tools to show crime rates in various locations around Australia:

South Australia - Using new, advanced suburb-level crime mapping technology, South Australians can access the previous month’s crime statistics in any of the State’s suburbs. https://www.police.sa.gov.au/about-us/crime-statistics-map

New South Wales - Crime statistics including reports and mapping: http://www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au/Pages/bocsar_crime_stats/bocsar_crime_stats.aspx

Australian Capital Territory - Each quarter, ACT Policing issues crime statistics illustrating the offenses reported or becoming known in suburbs across Canberra. https://policenews.act.gov.au/crime-statistics-and-data/crime-statistics

Queensland - QLD Police Service Crime Statistics: Crimes are mapped on or near the location where they occurred.
https://mypolice.qld.gov.au/queensland-crime-statistics/

Victoria - Latest statistics released by the Crime Statistics Agency show recorded criminal incidents and related offences across Victoria: https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/

Western Australia - The key crime offences for the WA Police Force are Illicit Drugs, Family Violence, Stealing, Burglaries, Assault and Anti-Social Behaviour. https://www.police.wa.gov.au/Crime/CrimeStatistics#/

Cyber Scare: A look at small to medium-sized business and the emergence of cybercrime in Australia (Office of the NSW Small Business Commissioner, 2017)
Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC)
NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR)
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
For South Australia, five years of suburb-based crime data for crimes against people and against property is available at https://data.sa.gov.au/data/organization/south-australia-police