Sorting Data from Access Db

=COUNTIFS(Table_crimestats.accdb[[#This Row],[station_id]], "station1",Table_crimestats.accdb[[#This Row],[crime_id]],"Assault",Table_crimestats.accdb[[#This Row],[date_occured]])

this works fine until the 3rd criteria, i need to pull the events of a certain month, the date is in ##/##/#### format.
can someone shed some light please.