About Risk Categories

A person who:

• Regularly engages in emotional abuse of others
• Intimidates, harasses, controls, uses fear or excludes others for the purpose of emotional manipulation
• Posts materials that are intended to shame and humiliate their target
• Is the target of bullying or emotional abuse

Interacts as a suspected person 18 or older to:

• Desensitise and normalise a minor to sexual discussion or imagery
• Establish trust with a minor by offering sympathy
• Encourage a minor to share contact or identity information
• Request images or video from a minor
• Attempt an offline meeting with a minor

Communicates with:

• Profanity (without bullying or threats)
• Distressing and objectionable subjects or images

Exposes data about themselves or another person:
 

• Personally identifiable information
• Contact details or location
• Login or financial information

Frequent sharing of: 

• Sex talk, sexual overtures or innuendos 
• Explicit images, video or text

Threatens to:

• Harm, kidnap or execute a person
• Participate in acts of terrorism, including biological attacks, bombing, vandalism or arson

Promotes violence, intimidation or terrorist activities with:

• Political, ideological or religious propaganda
• Rationalisation or moral duty
• Targeting and demonising groups by their perceived identities

A person who:

• Communicates threats of bodily injury or death to a person
• Engages in physical force intending to hurt or damage a person or property
• Physically intimidates, harasses or is violent towards others
• Performs detailed research or shows interest in weapons or guns
• Is the target of threats of physical injury or death

Expresses:

• Credible threats of suicide, suicidal ideation or self-harm
• A current risk of sexual or physical abuse offline
• Suffering from an untreated eating disorder
• Severely distressed or traumatised