Editing South Australia (section)

==Crime==

{{main|Crime in South Australia}}'''Crime in South Australia''' is managed by the [[South Australia Police]] (SAPOL), various state and federal courts in the [[Judiciary of Australia|criminal justice system]] and the state [[Department for Correctional Services (South Australia)|Department for Correctional Services]], which administers the [[Punishment in Australia|prisons]] and [[remand centre]].

Crime statistics for all categories of offence in the state are provided on the SAPOL website, in the form of rolling 12-month totals.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Crime statistics|url=https://www.police.sa.gov.au/about-us/crime-statistics-map|access-date=20 December 2020|website=South Australia Police|language=en-au}}</ref> Crime statistics from the 2017–18 national [[Australian Bureau of Statistics|ABS]] Crime Victimisation Survey show that between the years 2008–09 and 2017–18, the rate of victimisation in South Australia declined for assault and most household crime types.<ref>{{Cite web|date=13 February 2019|title=Main Features - South Australia|url=https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/4530.0~2017-18~Main%20Features~South%20Australia~27|access-date=20 December 2020|website=Australian Bureau of Statistics|language=en}}</ref>

In 2013, [[Adelaide]] was ranked the safest capital city in Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Adelaide's nation's safest city, according to Suncorp study - Adelaide Now|url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/adelaides-nations-safest-city-according-to-suncorp-survey/story-e6frea83-1226554685466|access-date=20 December 2020|archive-date=10 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710232616/http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/adelaides-nations-safest-city-according-to-suncorp-survey/story-e6frea83-1226554685466|url-status=dead}}</ref>