Coercive Control Monitoring Report Sept 2025

Key findings:

• Between 1 July 2024 and 30 September 2025, NSW Police recorded 386 incidents of coercive control. The most common controlling behaviour was harassment, monitoring or tracking, present in 57% of incidents.

• 61% of coercive control incidents were accompanied by another offence type, most frequently: intimidation or stalking (37%), domestic assault (35%) or malicious damage (13%).

• 94% of victims were women, and 92% of incidents involved a female victim and male alleged offender. Nearly half the victims (46%) had a prior history of domestic violence recorded by police, and 31% had previously experienced domestic violence involving the same alleged offender.

• 23% of victims of coercive control had an Apprehended Domestic Violence Order (ADVO) in place at the time of the incident, while a further 58% had an ADVO issued following the event.
  

• As at 30 September 2025, 18 coercive control charges had been laid. Of these, three have been finalised in court: two were withdrawn by the prosecution, and one was resolved by guilty plea with the defendant receiving an Intensive Correction Order.