VOLUNTARILY CAUSING HURT (Breakdown of victims)

Dr Kanwaljit Soin asked the Minister for Home Affairs, of the 3625 cases of voluntarily causing hurt involving family members reported to the Police in 1994, if he will give a breakdown of the victims into categories of (i) husbands; (ii) wives; (iii) the elderly; (iv) children; and (v) other adult family members.

Mr Wong Kan Seng: Reports of family violence are not separately categorized from other hurt cases. Cases of family violence are presently subsumed under the broad category of voluntarily causing hurt or voluntarily causing grievous hurt. As such, Police do not have a ready breakdown of the statistics as requested.