On Friday the 07-09-12 at around 6.20 pm a male entered the Rosanna Convenience Store and demanded the forty-two-year-old female shop assistant move away from the cash register. The assailant then stole $200.00 before fleeing the store and running towards the Rosanna Train Station. For victims of crime support and advice call 1800 000 055…
DetailsA former employee of the South Australian Attorney-General’s Department is being investigated for more than twenty counts of abuse of public office involving the misappropriation of more than $1 million from the Victims of Crime Compensation Fund. Six men have also been arrested over allegations of misappropriation of money from the South Australian Victims of…
DetailsOn Wednesday the 12-09-12 at around 7.30 pm two assailants wearing hockey masks and wielding a machete demanded cash and cigarettes from staff at the Dingley Woolworths Supermarket before fleeing in a dark blue Holden motor vehicle. If you have been the victim of an armed robbery while at work contact Victims of Crime Compensation…
DetailsA recent South Korean Study found that: 36% of the child victims file charges with police while 37.8% take no action and 16.8% consider filing charges. Reasons for failing to do so included: Parents of victims giving up due to the difficult procedure of filing charges where young victims have to testify repeatedly. Most families…
DetailsOn the 09-09-12 at around 10.30 pm three assailants broke into a home in Dandenong North terrifying the forty-year-old woman, seventeen-year-old girl and a one-year-old baby residents who locked themselves in a room during the attack. The assailants demanded that one of the victims come outside but did not. The assailants extensively damaged two motor…
DetailsOn Tuesday the 11-09-12 at around 9.00 pm a fifty-two-year-old man and a forty-nine-year-old female were shot while a pregnant twenty-two-year-old mother and her one-year-old daughter were abducted in Meadow Heights. The male victim was shot in the shoulder and taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the female victim was shot in the hip…
DetailsOn Sunday the 02-09-12 at around 3.00 pm a forty-eight-year-old female was physically assaulted while donating items to a charity bin outside the Uniting Church in Heidelberg. The victim said that she was placing clothing, including a leather jacket, into the charity bin when a female, aged in her twenties and who appeared to be…
DetailsOn Sunday the 09-09-12 at around 12.45 am a forty-seven-year-old male breached an Intervention Order in Montmorency armed with a gun. The occupant asked the offender to leave and he did. Police quickly searched the area but failed to locate the offender. If you have been the victim of Breach of Intervention Order contact Victims…
DetailsOn Friday the 31-08-12 at around midnight an adult female was physically assaulted after a fight broke out at a teenage party. The victim said that she was collecting her teenage daughter from the party when a sixteen-year-old male, being pursued by a group of others, ran into the back of her motor vehicle. The…
DetailsStaff at Metro train who experience domestic violence will receive paid leave to attend medical, legal and other appointments. Luba Grigorovitch, Union Organiser, said female members first raised domestic violence as a growing concern some two years ago. A spokeswoman for Metro said that the company wanted the best for its staff. Municipal Councils, including…
DetailsOn Sunday the 10-09-12 at around 1.00 am a twenty-year-old male attacked a thirty-year-old Taxi Driver over a $50.00 fare. It is believed that the assailant’s EFTPOS card was declined resulting in an argument with the assailant punching the Taxi Driver several times to his face and head before fleeing. The victim sustained a suspected…
DetailsIn Victoria from 2011 to 2012 there was a 23% increase in reports to police of domestic violence with a 45% increase in the number of charges. There were 50,382 reports with 17,528 charges. Assault charges increased 43% to 16,047. Breaches of an Intervention Order increased by 42% to 9,632. In around 35% of instances…
DetailsIn Victoria more than half of sexual abuse victims don’t report the crime. 66% of victims said that they did not report because they were worried about not being believed and 52% said that they lacked confidence in the legal system. The average sentence for rape is 5 years with most prosecutors considering this to…
DetailsRecently Victoria’s Attorney-General, Robert Clark, and Community Services Minister, Mary Wooldridge, launched a discussion paper on youth diversion which called for an expansion of diversion programs for juveniles who commit offences. The Coalition has said that they will still push ahead with minimum two-year sentences for young offenders guilty of intentionally or recklessly causing serious…
DetailsVictoria’s rate of murder and manslaughter has climbed by 44% during 2011 – 2012, equaling NSW. Homicides, according to Criminologists, can be a reliable benchmark for crime since they have high reporting rates and are generally immune to police operations. In most murder cases in Victoria they were related to domestic violence or the victim…
DetailsOn the 09-09-12 at around 7.00 am two male assailants aged in their twenties wearing balaclavas entered the Northcote Golf Club threatening a staff member with an iron bar demanding money. The men soon fled with a quantity of cash. A similar armed robbery occurred at the same location on the 04-07-12 and police believe…
DetailsFollowing the recent inquest into the death of a thirty-four-year-old man who was shot and dismembered by his eighteen-year-old stepdaughter, who he had sexually abused for 4 years, in 2008 the coroner recommended that the Education Department improve training to teachers to be better able to recognise child sex abuse. It is estimated that the…
DetailsOn Saturday the 09-09-12 at around 5.00 am a violent altercation erupted between a group of men in Queen Street. Two men were stabbed, a nineteen-year-old, who was treated at The Alfred Hospital, and a twenty-year-old -year-old, who was treated at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, while a third nineteen-year-old male received head injuries and was…
DetailsOn Friday the 07-09-12 at around 3.45 pm two male assailants, aged twenty-four and twenty-six years, car-jacked a motor vehicle in Geelong following a collision and demanded to be driven to another location. The assailants were soon apprehended and charged with theft of a motor vehicle as well as false imprisonment and threats to kill.…
DetailsVictoria Police recorded 391,325 offences in 2011 to 2012, an increase of 8.2% from the previous year. Of the 391,325 offences 168,200 were cleared within the same financial year, a clearance rate of 51.7%. Victoria Police processed 178,897 alleged offenders 10.6% more than the previous year. 208,100 persons were recorded as victims of crime, an…
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