{"id":293673,"date":"2025-09-30T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=293673"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T03:00:11","slug":"new-stats-reveal-highest-number-of-criminal-incidents-in-victoria-since-records-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=293673","title":{"rendered":"New stats reveal highest number of criminal incidents in Victoria since records began"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victoria’s crime rate has soared to the highest levels on record, driven by a spike in thefts across the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest figures from the Crime Statistics Agency (CSA) show continued growth in both criminal incidents and recorded offences in Victoria since the COVID-19 lockdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner, Regional Operations, Bob Hill, said the figures were unacceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As a society, we simply cannot allow the level of crime we are seeing to become normalised and accepted,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Every Victorian deserves to feel safe in their home, within the community and on the roads.”<\/p>\n\n\n

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Victoria Police recorded 483,583 criminal incidents in the 12 months before June 30, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is an 18.3 per cent rise from the 408,930 incidents recorded in the same period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CSA said this represented the highest recorded figures since the commencement of reporting in 2004-05.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It represents a 22 per cent jump in the criminal incidents overall since 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the same time period, Victoria’s population has grown by about 12 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melbourne remains the local government area with the highest rate of crime, seeing 18,097.4 criminal incidents per 100,000 estimated resident population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That number is a 17.4 per cent jump on last year’s figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the per capita crime rate is still lower than in 2017, when Melbourne saw 18,334.2 criminal incidents per 100,000 residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Melbourne remains the local government area with the highest rate of crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":228235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35,921],"tags":[8634,993,8],"class_list":["post-293673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","category-crime","tag-jacinta-allan","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t