Drug Use Monitoring in Australia: 2003 annual report on drug use among police detainees. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. http://www. aic.gov.au/publications/rpp/65

The Drug Use Monitoring in Australia (DUMA) project has been in operation since 1999. Over the years it has provided police, policy-makers, criminal justice practitioners and other professionals with systematic empirical data on illegal drug use among people detained and brought to a police station or watchhouse. The project currently operates at seven sites throughout Australia – Adelaide city and Elizabeth in South Australia; Bankstown and Parramatta in New South Wales; Brisbane city and Southport in Queensland and East Perth in Western Australia. DUMA significantly adds to the evidence base by providing a reasonable and independent indicator of drug-related crime within a specific area. DUMA allows the identification of changes in drug use to be detected within a relatively short time span, as well as monitoring trends over a longer time period. This provides law enforcement with valuable information regarding possible shifts in trends and patterns. This report presents both self-report and urinalysis data from participating detainees for the calendar year 2003. It provides an overview of the characteristics of the detainees at each site, including self-reported drug use, prior criminal behaviour and treatmen