A new American study found that only about 12% of the nearly 70% of victims of violent crime that have suffered a social or emotional problem, such as anxiety, trouble sleeping or depression, received any assistance from victim services. The study also found that 80% of women who suffered from a serious violent crime reported…
DetailsOn Monday the 15-09-14 at around 9.15 am a twenty-six-year-old male was approached by three teenagers, a boy aged fifteen years, and two girls aged fifteen and seventeen years, and threatened with a weapon on the grounds of La Trobe University. A passerby witnessed the incident and came to the victim’s aid allowing him to…
DetailsOn Saturday the 6th September 2014 at around 2.30 pm an eighteen-year-old female was walking along the Dandenong Creek Walking Trail in Doveton when an unknown male approached and indecently assaulted her. The teenage victim pushed the assailant away and managed to flee. The assailant is described as being of Middle Eastern appearance and in…
DetailsOn most days between July and September 2014 a male offender has been getting on a tram on Elgin Street in Carlton during the peak morning period heading towards the Melbourne CBD. The offender then has indecently assaulted a number of females before alighting at Melbourne Central. The offender is described as wearing a dark…
DetailsOn Monday the 08-09-14 an eleven-year-old girl was walking along Francis Street in Yarraville when a white commercial van stopped beside her and asked her to get in. The young girl refused and the offender again requested she get into the van at which time she ran home and told her parents of the incident.…
DetailsCurrent new intitiatives include: 1. Across Victoria there are now 13,000 police and 329 police stations. 2. 140 Melbourne railway stations and major regional stations now being manned by 940 Protective Services Officers. 3. Longer jail time for a range of serious offences, including murder, culpable driving, sexual penetration of a child under twelve years,…
DetailsOn Sunday the 14-09-14 just before 1.00 am a thirty-two-year-old woman was assaulted in Madison Avenue Narre Warren. The victim sustained serious injuries and is at The Alfred hospital in a critical condition. Police have since charged a twenty-seven-year-old male with intentionally causing serious injury and recklessly causing serious injury who was remanded in custody…
DetailsOn the 11-09-14 just after 7.30 pm a masked male entered a retail business on Drummond Street and demanded money from the female shop assistant. The assistant refused to comply to the offender’s demands and instructed another staff person to call the police at which time the offender fled. The offender was wearing a white…
DetailsOn the 1st September 2014 at around 9.00 pm two teenage girls, aged fifteen and sixteen years, were at a bus stop on The Lakes Boulevard in South Morang when they were approached by several unknown males. The males threatened the teenage girls with a weapon and assaulted them before stealing their mobile phones and…
DetailsOn the 01-09-14 at around 1.20 am two armed male offenders entered the bottle shop on Bedford Road in Ringwood and demanded cash. A scuffle then ensued between the male bottle shop attendant and the two assailants during which the attendant sustained a laceration to his hand. The offenders then stole cash and fled in…
DetailsOn the 02-09-14 a molotov cocktail was thrown through the bedroom window of a home on Victoria Drive in Thomastown, with three others landing on the nature strip. On previous occasions, June 15, July 18 and August 28, molotov cocktails have been thrown at the same three houses on Victoria Drive. Police said that the…
DetailsOn Wednesday the 03-09-14 at around 4.30 am an offender broken into a home on Rhinds Road in Wallington. During the burglary the offender was disturbed by a sixteen-year-old girl who was assaulted and the offender then fled. The teenage victim suffered a serious cut to her forearm together with other minor injuries and was…
DetailsOn the 03-09-14 just before 5.00 pm a male offender entered the Gaming Venue on Gourlay Road in Hillside armed with a knife. The offender threatened staff with the weapon before stealing cash and fleeing in a white or silver Nissan Navara dual cab with a canopy. The offender is believed to be Caucasian, approximately…
DetailsOn Friday the 29th August 2014 at around 1.45 am a male offender entered a service station on the South Gippsland Highway in Dandenong South and attempted to buy a packet of chewing gum. As he was doing so he produced a knife and demanded that the shop assistant hand over cash. The shop assistant…
DetailsOn Sunday the 31-08-14 at around 4.15 am a forty-seven-year-old female had her legs bound with tape and was sexually assaulted by five males in Snowball Lane in South Yarra. After the assault the victim ran to Chapel Street to raise the alarm and was soon after taken to hospital for treatment. Police are appealing…
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