On Sunday the 2nd June 2013 at around 2.45 am a male armed with a knife and wearing a black motorcycle helmet entered the Gap Road Sunbury Convenience Store and demanded cash from the shop assistant. The offender was given cash and then fled on foot. Fawkner Embona police are investigating the incident. Victims of…
DetailsOn Friday the 3rd May 2013 at around 9.00 pm two men entered the Mansfield Street Milk Bar in Berwick armed with a baseball bat and demanded cash from the shop owner’s thirteen-year-old son. The assailants violently smashed a cash register and computer screen resulting in the forty-year-old shop owner coming to his son’s aid.…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 4th June 2013 at around 3.00 pm police arrived at a home on Biggs Street in St Albans to find a male with a stab wound to the lower abdomen. The male was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital where he later died from his injuries. A thirty-nine-year-old St Albans man was…
DetailsResearch shows that 33% of women in Australia have been subjected to some form of sexual violence in their life and that such abuse often leads to a myriad of health issues. According to the research paper by Taylor.S.Caroline, Pugh Judith, Coles Jan, and Goodwach Raie it is very important to identify the history of…
DetailsOn Saturday the 25th May 2013 just after 7.30pm a male assailant entered the Essendon bottle shop and threatened the shop attendant with a knife demanding cash from the till. The bottle shop attendant handed over cash and the offender fled running east along Albion Street. On Monday the 3rd June 2013 just after 7.30pm…
DetailsBetween Saturday the 25 May and Tuesday the 28 May a male aged from thirty to forty years has been seen loitering and approaching young women in the Red Cliffs area, and in particular in the vicinity of the netball courts and toilets in Quandong Park. It is believed the male has entered the female…
DetailsIn 2012 the State Government offered $250,000 to The City of Melbourne to install security cameras at nine sites in the Melbourne CBD to increase public safety. Robert Doyle, Melbourne Mayor, said he wants more security cameras but the money offered by the State Government will not cover the installation of these cameras and is…
DetailsA recent report by The Sentencing Advisory Council found that jail time is not a deterrent to re-offending and that criminals who do jail time in Victoria are more likely to reoffend. Seven years of data from the Victorian Magistrates Courts was examined and found men under twenty-five-years of age who had recently been in…
DetailsA four-year-old child has been recently awarded $9,000.00 and a right to ongoing counselling after she was sexually abused by another four-year-old child at a day care centre by The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT). It was alleged that the victim was hit, kicked, undressed and sexually abused and now suffers from anxiety and…
DetailsOn Sunday the 2nd June 2013 a female stabbed her female friend in a Wonthaggi unit following a fight over cigarettes after consuming a significant amount of alcohol. The victim was stabbed with a steak knife sustaining a forty centimetre deep stab wound to her chest and was treated at the Wonthaggi Hospital. The assailant…
DetailsOn Wednesday the 29th May 2013 just before midnight a masked male in dark clothing threatened staff at the Caltex Service Station in Echuca with a knife. The armed assailant demanded money before fleeing. Police are appealing for public information to assist their investigation into the armed robbery. If you have been the victim of…
DetailsOn the 24th May 2013 at around 10.20 pm a confrontation arose between two groups of men at the Woori Yallock Hotel in the Yarra Ranges resulting in a male being kicked to the head and lost consciousness and was treated at the Maroondah Hospital. Yarra Ranges CIU police are appealing for witnesses. If you…
DetailsOn the 16th May 2013 it is alleged that a forty-six-year-old male sexually assaulted a four-year-old girl at the Kmart Store in Eastland, Ringwood. The male, who is from Mooroolbark, is due to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court in August. If you have been a victim of a sexual assault call 1800 000 055…
DetailsPolice figures for the past twelve months reveal that violent assaults and drugs dealings have increased significantly in the City of Maribyrnong. Physical assaults have surged 13.8% to 635 cases. Physical assaults, excluding family violence, increased 7.7% to 446 offences. Drug offences increased 7.5% to 777 incidences. Police Inspector Tony Long said a Family Violence…
DetailsCrime in the City of Brimbank has increased by 9.4% cent in the past year to March, with a total of 18,676 crimes reported. * Drug offences have increased by 43.6%, from 753 to 1179. * Assaults, excluding Family Violence, have increased by 31.3%, from 753 to 989. Brimbank Police said that they are disappointed with a…
DetailsOn the 22-05-13 two young men reported that they had been threatened with a pair of scissors by a teenage male to Protective Services Officers at the St Albans Railway Station. Protective Services Officers then apprehended and arrested a fifteen-year-old male on Main Rd West. Victims of physical assault or other serious crime call 1800…
DetailsIn the past twelve months crime has gone up by 8.1% in the City of Hume, from 14,110 to 15,253 offences. Crimes against the person have risen by 7.3%, Property crime & drug offences risen by 4.6%. More people are reporting family violence. Many assaults taking place around central Broadmeadows. If you have been a victim of crime…
DetailsThe universally accepted definition as declared by United Nations (UN) regarding “victims of crime” states that “people who have suffered harm, including physical or mental injury, emotional suffering, economic loss or substantial impairment of their fundamental rights, through acts or omissions that are in violation of criminal laws”. So, a victim of crime is the…
DetailsThe Law Reform Committee recently published its final report into Sexting, after being asked to do so in 2011 by the Attorney General, Robert Clark, making fourteen recommendations. The two major changes being: That an offence be introduced for non-consensual sexting. That young people have a defence against child pornography charges if the two individuals…
DetailsIn Victoria last year there were more than 50,000 domestic violence crimes reported to the police and over 60,000 are expected to be reported this year. Domestic violence victims sought almost 9000 Intervention Orders last year. Also last year more than 9600 people were charged with breaching domestic violence crime related orders. Statistics of violent…
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