Reporting sexual assault to the police
If you have been sexually assaulted, you can make a complaint or report to the police. The relevant contacts for each state and territory are listed here.
If you, or someone else, is in immediate danger you should call the police on 000. If there is no immediate danger but you or someone else needs police assistance, phone 131 444.
If you believe the workplace sexual harassment you have experienced involves criminal conduct, including actual or attempted sexual assault, you can report the matter to police.
The Police Assistance Line operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and allows the reporting of a crime over the phone with the information being made immediately available to your local police.
- Phone: 131 444
- Contact information for reporting crime
The relevant police contacts for reporting sexual assault in each state and territory are listed here.
Police contacts for reporting sexual assault
Australian Federal Police
NSW Police Sexual Assault Reporting Options (SARO)
NT Police Sex Crimes Division
- Phone: (08) 8922 3617
- Visit website for more information
Queensland Police, reporting information for adult sexual assault
SA Police Sexual Crime Investigations
- Phone: 08 8172 5555 (business hours only)
- Visit key contact pages for more information
- Information for victims of sexual assault (opens PDF)
Tasmania Police Contact
Local Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team (SOCIT) locations and phone numbers
WA Police Sexual Assault Squad
- Phone: 08 9428 1600
- Email: SexAssaultSquadSMAIL@police.wa.gov.au
- Visit 'Your safety: sexual assault' page for more information