11077 (2024). Hon Dr Duncan Webb to the Minister of Police

11077 (2024). Hon Dr Duncan Webb to the Minister of Police: How many people, if any, had their name removed from the gang register held by the Gang Harm Insights Centre referred to in WPQ 4040 (2024) other than those people who had died?

Hon Mark Mitchell: I am advised that The National Gang List (NGL) is a fixed snapshot, or instance, of a constantly changing information environment. A single person could be added and removed from the NGL multiple times throughout their life as new information is processed. To establish how many people have been removed from the NGL, it is necessary to directly compare two specific instances at different points in time. At the time an instance of the NGL is produced, an individual must meet every condition from the Gang Harm Insight Centre’s (GHIC) membership criteria to be included. As a result, changes to one or more of these individual’s personal attributes can cause them to not appear in the next release. These changes can be initiated by a range of circumstances, including but not limited to: - New information leading to Police forming a new assessment on their membership. - New information contrasting or negating a prior membership assessment. - Contradictory information preventing a clear membership assessment from being reached. - Historic information being removed for not meeting our current quality standards. Removal reasons are not a structured attribute of membership data but have previously been manually collated while producing an NGL instance. Importantly, these removal reasons only have meaning when directly comparing an NGL instance with the version immediately before it. Across the six NGL instances produced in 2023, on average 0.3 percent of the people recorded as Members on one instance did not reappear on the following instance for reasons other than being deceased. This equated to approximately 28 people per NGL instance. Some of these members would almost certainly reappear in future NGL instances as new information is identified and incorporated into a reassessment of an individual’s current gang membership status.