This report discusses New South Wales (NSW) crime statistics data generated by the Computerized Operational Policing System (COPS) within the NSW police service. Focusing on crime statistics data from January 1998 to December 2001, this report discusses crime trends, over the 2-year period, for the category of serious offenses. Following a discussion of how the crime data were recorded and counted and how this report is organized, the document begins with a discussion of trends in NSW recorded crime. A series of graphs illustrates the trends in murder, assault, sexual assault, robbery with a weapon, breaking and entering, motor vehicle theft, stealing, fraud, and malicious damage to property from January 1999 to December 2001. Graphs presenting the number of persons charged for crimes and statistics concerning court attendance and summons notices precede this report’s comprehensive coverage of trends in NSW recorded criminal incidents and methods of proceeding against alleged offenders, presented month-by-month, over the 2-year period. Statistics presenting cleared criminal incidents for selected offenses in NSW is followed by a summary of recorded crime statistics in NSW, region-by-region. Discussing the serious criminal offenses mentioned previously in addition to various crimes involving the use, possession, and dealing of narcotics and other drugs, as well as offensive language and driving offenses, this section on NSW regional crime is followed by a series of appendices listing the types of offenses included in each classification, a map of NSW statistical division boundaries, and listing of local government areas.