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Crime Statistics VictoriaYear ending 31 December 2017

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ContentsIntroduction.......................................................................................................................................................3

1. Recorded criminal incidents..........................................................................................................................4

1.1 Key movements in the number and rate of criminal incidents........................................................................................4

1.2 Number of criminal incidents by principal offence category...........................................................................................5

1.3 Regional profile...............................................................................................................................................................8

1.4 Criminal incidents arising in the context of family violence............................................................................................8

1.5 Investigation status........................................................................................................................................................9

2. Recorded offences.......................................................................................................................................10

2.1 Key movements in the number and rate of offences.....................................................................................................10

2.2 Number of recorded offences by the type of offence....................................................................................................11

2.3 Regional profile.............................................................................................................................................................14

2.4 Family violence related offences..................................................................................................................................14

2.5 Investigation status......................................................................................................................................................15

3. Alleged offender incidents...........................................................................................................................16

3.1 Key movements in the number and rate of alleged offender incidents.........................................................................16

3.2 Sex and age of alleged offenders..................................................................................................................................16

3.3 Number of alleged offender incidents by principal offence category............................................................................18

3.4 Outcome........................................................................................................................................................................19

3.5 Key movements in the number of alleged offender incidents by Indigenous status.....................................................20

4. Victim reports..............................................................................................................................................21

4.1 Key movements in the number and rate of victim reports............................................................................................21

4.2 Sex and age of victims..................................................................................................................................................22

4.3 Number of victim reports by principal offence category...............................................................................................22

5. Family incidents...........................................................................................................................................23

5.1 Key movements in the number and rate of family incidents.........................................................................................23

5.2. Demographic characteristics of affected family members..........................................................................................24

5.3 Demographic characteristics of other parties...............................................................................................................25

Appendix 1. Explanatory notes........................................................................................................................27

Appendix 2. Recorded criminal incidents by principal offence – Jan 2013 to Dec 2017................................41

Appendix 3. Recorded criminal incidents by region and local government area – Jan 2013 to Dec 2017......43

Appendix 4. Recorded offences by offence category – Jan 2013 to Dec 2017...............................................46

Appendix 5. Recorded offences by region and local government area – Jan 2013 to Dec 2017....................48

Introduction This publication presents data on crime reported to, or detected by, Victoria Police with a focus on the most recent 12 month period.

Quarterly crime statistics produced by the CSA are based on a rolling 12 month set of statistics that collate four quarters of data. As such, three quarters from the previous reference period are carried forward into the next 12 month period, with the addition of the most recent quarter. This means that changes that may occur within one quarter will be included in four different crime statistics releases.

Data was extracted from the Victoria Police Law Enforcement Assistance Program (LEAP) database on 18 th day of the month after the reference period.

The publication presents an overview of:

Recorded criminal incidents Recorded offences Alleged offender incidents Victim reports Family incidents.

This report highlights the incidents and offences recorded by Victoria Police, the number of times people have been recorded as alleged offenders or as having made a victim report by Victoria Police and the number of times a family incident has been recorded during the most recent reference periods.

The CSA would like to acknowledge the Victoria Police staff and officers who assisted in the provision of data and information.

4 Recorded criminal incidents – year ending December 2017

1. Recorded criminal incidentsThe information outlined in this section represents all criminal incidents recorded in the Victoria Police Law Enforcement Assistance Program (LEAP), where Victoria Police have recorded a crime prohibited by criminal law. These include crimes that have been reported to police as well as those identified by police. For more information about counting rules, please refer to the Explanatory Notes.

1.1 Key movements in the number and rate of criminal incidentsYear ending December

2013 2014 2015 2016 20171 year

% change 5 year

% changeCriminal incidents 339,767 345,211 369,753 420,219 380,066 -9.6% 11.9%

Criminal incident rate per 100,000

5,925.9 5,913.1 6,218.0 6,923.3 6,172.4 -10.8% 4.2%

Victorian criminal incident rate per 100,000 population, 10 year trend

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6,004.0 5,925.9 5,913.16,218.0

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1.2 Number of criminal incidents by principal offence categoryIn order to best represent the type of offence associated with a criminal incident involving multiple offences, the most serious offence within an incident is determined and this becomes the principal offence to represent the incident. For criminal incidents the most serious charge laid is selected, if no charges were laid, the most serious offence recorded will be selected.

24 month trend testing – criminal incidentsThe CSA uses a 24 month trend test on each offence subdivision and Local Government Area to highlight changes that are statistically significant. The CSA uses the Kendall’s Rank Order Correlation statistical test (or Kendall‘s tau-b) to determine whether a series is trending upwards or downwards over the two years. For more information on the trend test please see the Explanatory notes and for the full data set, please see the recorded criminal incident data tables in Appendix 2 and Appendix 3.

Over the last 24 months, the major principle offence categories that showed significant upward trends for criminal incidents were:

Sexual offences (up 15.9% from 7,142 to 8,279)

The major principal offence categories that showed significant downward trends for criminal incidents were:

Abduction and related offences (down 12.1% from 464 to 408)

Arson (down 19.6% from 3,629 to 2,919)

Burglary/Break and enter (down 15.3% from 52,045 to 44,062)

Theft (down 16.6% from 156,965 to 130,923)

Drug dealing and trafficking (down 12.6% from 3,122 to 2,729)

Justice procedures (down 18.0% from 9,011 to 7,392)

All other major principal offence categories did not show a significant trend over the last 24 months.


In the past 12 months, 61.6% of criminal incidents had a principal offence of Property and deception offences, 16.3% were Crimes against the person, and 11.8% were Justice procedures offences. Public order and security offences made up 6.2% of all criminal incidents and Drug offences accounted for 3.9%. The remaining 0.2% consisted of Other offences not classified elsewhere.

Victorian criminal incidents recorded by principal offence category and quarter in the past 12 months

Jan – Mar 2017

Apr – Jun 2017

Jul – Sept 2017

Oct – Dec 2017

Total Jan – Dec

2017Number

Crimes against the person 16,387 14,459 15,040 16,062 61,948Property and deception offences 60,723 58,440 56,290 58,704 234,157Drug offences 3,703 3,618 3,697 3,630 14,648Public order and security offences 6,483 5,956 5,631 5,644 23,714Justice procedures offences 11,653 10,986 11,261 10,925 44,825Other offences 246 204 173 151 774Total 99,195 93,663 92,092 95,116 380,066

Proportion (%)Crimes against the person 26.5% 23.3% 24.3% 25.9% 100.0%Property and deception offences 25.9% 25.0% 24.0% 25.1% 100.0%Drug offences 25.3% 24.7% 25.2% 24.8% 100.0%Public order and security offences 27.3% 25.1% 23.7% 23.8% 100.0%Justice procedures offences 26.0% 24.5% 25.1% 24.4% 100.0%Other offences 31.8% 26.4% 22.4% 19.5% 100.0%Total 26.1% 24.6% 24.2% 25.0% 100.0%

Victorian criminal incidents recorded by principal offence category, 5 year trend

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67.2% 65.2% 65.0% 64.6% 61.6%

14.6% 14.5% 14.1% 14.3% 16.3%

5.8% 8.4% 9.7% 11.4% 11.8%8.1% 7.5% 6.7% 5.8% 6.2%4.0% 4.1% 4.2% 3.7% 3.9%

Property and deception offences Crimes against the person Justice procedures offences

Public order and security offences Drug offences Other offences

In the last 12 months, there was an overall decrease in the number of criminal incidents with a principal offence of Property and deception offences (37,403 incidents, 13.8%), driven by a 16.6% decrease in Theft (26,042 incidents). Offence subdivisions Arson, Burglary/Break & enter and Theft all showed significant decreasing trends over the past 24 months.


The number of criminal incidents with a principal offence of Crimes against the person increased by 3.3% (1,990 incidents) compared to the previous year. Offence subdivision Sexual offences showed a significant increasing trend over the past 24 months. Incidents of Sexual offences increased by the highest number from the 2016 to 2017 reference periods, up by 15.9% (1,137 incidents). Offence subdivision Abduction and related offences showed a significant decreasing trend over the past 24 months, down 12.1% (56 incidents) in the last 12 months.

Victorian criminal incidents recorded by principal offence category, 5 year trend

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Compared to the previous year the number of Drug offences incidents decreased by 6.9% (1,084 incidents). This was driven by Drug use and possession incidents which decreased by 5.4% (625 incidents). There was a significant downward trend in Drug dealing and trafficking incidents over the 24-month period ending December 2017.

In the last 12 months Justice procedures offences incidents decreased by 6.2% (2,942 incidents). There was a significant decreasing trend in the Justice Procedures subdivision over the 24-month period ending December 2017, down 18.0% (1,619 incidents) in the 12 month reference period.


1.3 Regional profileIn the last 12 months there was a decrease in the number of criminal incidents in Victoria across all four police regions, by 40,570 incidents. The Southern Metro regions and North West Metro decreased by 12.2% and 10.5% respectively, followed by the Eastern Region (7.6%) and Western Region (6.9%). The five Local Government Areas with the highest criminal incident rates were:

Melbourne (18,280.7 incidents per 100,000 estimated resident population, down 12.0%) Latrobe (12,596.0 incidents per 100,000 estimated resident population, down 10.8%) Yarra (11,134.6 incidents per 100,000 estimated resident population, down 10.1%) Greater Shepparton (9,241.3 incidents per 100,000 estimated resident population, down 7.1%) Mildura (8,981.0 incidents per 100,000 estimated resident population, down 6.0%)

Further information on the number and types of incidents by Local Government Area is available in the Crime by location tool at www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au.

1.4 Criminal incidents arising in the context of family violenceA criminal incident is counted as having arisen in the context of family violence when Victoria Police have completed an L17 form and a criminal offence has also been recorded. The following graph highlights the number of criminal incidents that were and were not related to a recorded family incident over the past five years.

Victorian criminal incidents recorded by whether family incident related, 5 year trend

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Non-family violence related recorded criminal incidents Family violence related recorded criminal incidents

In the last 12 months, there were 14.2% (53,855) of recorded criminal incidents related to a family incident.


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1.5 Investigation statusAt the time data was extracted, 26.6% of criminal incidents recorded in the past 12 months ending 31 December in the category of Crimes against the person resulted in an Arrest (16,476 incidents). A further 25.4% of criminal incidents resulted in a Summons (15,733 incidents) and 20.1% remained Unsolved (12,445 incidents). For 21.8% (13,476 incidents) an Intent to summons in the future had been recorded and the remaining 6.2% (3,818 incidents) resulted in either a Caution/Official warning, Penalty Infringement Notice or Other outcome.

Victorian criminal incidents recorded by investigation status, year ending December 2017

Arrest SummonsCaution/ Official warning

OtherIntent to

SummonsUnsolved Total

NumberCrimes against the person 16,476 15,733 530 3,288 13,476 12,445 61,948Property and deception offences

38,378 15,660 3,053 1,367 8,073 167,626 234,157

Drug offences 7,518 1,899 3,982 21 624 604 14,648Public order and security offences

5,136 4,308 416 11,897 902 1,055 23,714

Justice procedures offences 22,096 11,798 58 1,810 4,162 4,901 44,825Other offences 101 343 80 18 65 167 774Total 89,705 49,741 8,119 18,401 27,302 186,798 380,066

Proportion (%)Crimes against the person 26.6% 25.4% 0.9% 5.3% 21.8% 20.1% 100.0%Property and deception offences

16.4% 6.7% 1.3% 0.6% 3.4% 71.6% 100.0%

Drug offences 51.3% 13.0% 27.2% 0.1% 4.3% 4.1% 100.0%Public order and security offences

21.7% 18.2% 1.8% 50.2% 3.8% 4.4% 100.0%

Justice procedures offences 49.3% 26.3% 0.1% 4.0% 9.3% 10.9% 100.0%Other offences 13.0% 44.3% 10.3% 2.3% 8.4% 21.6% 100.0%Total 23.6% 13.1% 2.1% 4.8% 7.2% 49.1% 100.0%

Other includes: Penalty infringement notice, caution not authorised, complaint withdrawn, notice to appear, no offence disclosed, not authorised, offender processed, warrant issued, summons not authorised, presentment and other statuses.


2. Recorded offencesThe information outlined in this section represents all offences recorded in the Victoria Police Law Enforcement Assistance Program (LEAP), where Victoria Police have recorded a crime prohibited by criminal law. These include crimes that have been reported to police as well as those identified by police.

2.1 Key movements in the number and rate of offencesYear ending December

2013 2014 2015 2016 20171 year

% change 5 year

% changeNumber of offences 437,838 459,264 500,840 551,662 504,070 -8.6% 15.1%

Offence rate per 100,000 7,636.4 7,866.7 8,422.4 9,088.9 8,186.2 -9.9% 7.2%

Victorian offence rate per 100,000 population, 10 year trend

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7,440.47,037.2 6,928.4 6,972.1

7,518.4 7,636.4 7,866.78,422.4

9,088.9

8,186.2


2.2 Number of recorded offences by the type of offence

24 month trend testing – recorded offencesThe CSA uses a 24 month trend test on each offence subdivision and Local Government Area to highlight changes that are statistically significant. The CSA uses the Kendall’s Rank Order Correlation statistical test (or Kendall‘s tau-b) to determine whether a series is trending upwards or downwards over the two years. For more information on the trend test please see the Explanatory notes and for the full data set, please see the offences data tables in Appendix 4 and Appendix 5.

Over the last 24 months, there were no major offence categories that showed significant upward trends for recorded offences.

The major offence categories that showed significant downward trends for recorded offences were:

Stalking, harassment and threatening behaviour (down 6.0% from 12,454 to 11,701)

Arson (down 25.5% from 4,161 to 3,101)

Property damage (down 5.8% from 43,847 to 41,324)

Burglary/Break and enter (down 15.4% from 54,757 to 46,311)

Theft (down 14.2% from 191,689 to 164,432)

Drug dealing and trafficking (down 17.2% from 4,999 to 4,138)

Cultivate or manufacture drugs (down 11.7% from 1,613 to 1,424)

Weapons and explosives offences (down 8.1% from 16,022 to 14,720)

Justice procedures (down 10.8% from 13,871 to 12,372)

All other major offence categories did not show a significant trend over the last 24 months.

12 Recorded offences – year ending December 2017

In the past 12 months, 57.5% of offences recorded were coded to the category Property and deception offences, 15.9% were in the category of Crimes against the person, and 6.9% were a Public order and security offences. Justice procedures offences made up 6.7% of all offences recorded and Drug offences accounted for 5.6%. The remaining 0.3% consisted of Other offences not classified elsewhere.

Victorian offences recorded by offence category and quarter

Jan – Mar 2017

Apr – Jun 2017

Jul – Sept 2017

Oct – Dec 2017

Total Jan – Dec

2017Number

Crimes against the person 20,858 18,980 19,945 20,298 80,081Property and deception offences 74,955 73,274 69,165 72,446 289,840Drug offences 7,052 6,930 7,312 6,904 28,198Public order and security offences 9,357 8,688 8,273 8,228 34,546Justice procedures offences 17,993 17,287 17,391 16,974 69,645Other offences 430 425 442 463 1,760Total 130,645 125,584 122,528 125,313 504,070

Proportion (%)Crimes against the person 26.0% 23.7% 24.9% 25.3% 100.0%Property and deception offences 25.9% 25.3% 23.9% 25.0% 100.0%Drug offences 25.0% 24.6% 25.9% 24.5% 100.0%Public order and security offences 27.1% 25.1% 23.9% 23.8% 100.0%Justice procedures offences 25.8% 24.8% 25.0% 24.4% 100.0%Other offences 24.4% 24.1% 25.1% 26.3% 100.0%Total 25.9% 24.9% 24.3% 24.9% 100.0%

Victorian offences recorded by offence category, 5 year trend

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62.6% 59.4% 59.6% 60.1% 57.5%

15.0% 14.9% 14.2% 14.3% 15.9%

8.1% 11.6% 12.4% 13.1% 13.8%

8.6% 8.1% 7.4% 6.5% 6.9%5.4% 5.7% 6.1% 5.7% 5.6%

Property and deception offences Crimes against the person Justice procedures offences

Public order and security offences Drug offences Other offences


In the last 12 months, the number of offences within the category of Crimes against the person increased by 1.5% (1,179 offences) compared to the previous year. This was driven by an increase in Sexual offences up 12.5% (1,608 offences). The 24-month trend test conducted on offences showed a significant decreasing trend in Stalking, harassment and threatening behaviour.

There was an overall decrease in the number of Property and deception offences of 12.6% (41,709 offences). The subdivisions that drove the decrease in the 12 months to December 2017 were; Theft down by 14.2% (27,257 offences), Burglary/Break and enter down by 15.4% (8,446 offences) and Property damage down by 5.8% (2,523 offences). Offence subdivisions Arson, Property damage, Burglary/Break & enter and Theft all showed significant decreasing trends over the past 24 months.

Victorian offences recorded by offence category, 5 year trend

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In the last 12 months, the number of offences in Drug offences decreased by 9.6% (3,010 offences). This was driven by decreases in Drug dealing and trafficking, down 17.2% (861 offences) and Drug use and possession, down 8.0% (1,975 offences). There was a significant 24 month downward trend in Drug dealing and trafficking and Cultivate and manufacture drugs offence categories in the period ending December 2017.

The number of Public order and security offences decreased by 4.1% (1,490 offences) compared to the previous year, driven by a decrease in Weapons and explosives offences by 8.1% (1,302 offences). There was a significant 24 month downward trend in offences for this subdivision in the period ending December 2017.

There was also a 3.6% decrease (2,617 offences) in the number of offences recorded for Justice procedures offences in the last 12 months. There was a significant 24 month downward trend for the Justice procedures subdivision in the period ending December 2017.


2.3 Regional profileIn the last 12 months there was an 8.8% decrease in the number of offences recorded in Victoria across all four police regions (48,177 offences). Southern Metro region by 11.9%, North West Metro decreased by 9.3% and the Eastern and Western regions decreased by 7.5% and 4.6% respectively. The five Local Government Areas with the highest offence rates were:

Melbourne (25,125.0 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, down 9.7%) Latrobe (18,084.5 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, down 7.6%) Yarra (13,988.5 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, down 8.9%) Greater Shepparton (12,516.5 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, down 5.1%) Mildura (12,097.0 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, down 1.0%)

Further information on the number and types of offences by Local Government Area is available in the Crime by location tool at www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au.

2.4 Family violence related offencesA family incident is counted each time Victoria Police complete an L17 form and may or may not involve a criminal offence. For more information on a family incident please see the Glossary located on the website. The following graph highlights the number of recorded offences that were related to a family incident and those that were not over the past five years. While a family incident may not involve any criminal offences, a single incident may also give rise to multiple offences.

Victorian offences recorded by whether family incident related, 5 year trend

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Non-family incident related offences Family incident related offences

In the last 12 months, 17.7% (89,176) of recorded offences were related to a family incident.


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2.5 Investigation statusAt the time of data extraction, 28.6% of offences recorded in the 12 months to 31 December in the category of Crimes against the person resulted in an Arrest (22,907 offences). There were 26.4% of offences resulting in a Summons (21,127 offences) and 17.0% remained Unsolved (13,631 offences). For 18.7% (14,974 offences) an Intent to summons in the future had been recorded and the remaining 9.3% (7,442 offences) resulted in either a Caution/Official warning or Other outcome.

Victorian offences recorded by investigation status, year ending December 2017

Arrest SummonsCaution/ Official warning

OtherIntent to

SummonsUnsolved Total

NumberCrimes against the person 22,907 21,127 575 6,867 14,974 13,631 80,081Property and deception offences

66,804 27,657 3,205 4,459 9,886 177,829 289,840

Drug offences 18,772 3,188 4,319 72 963 884 28,198Public order and security offences

12,174 7,156 600 11,996 1,287 1,333 34,546

Justice procedures offences 36,474 19,804 68 2,410 5,187 5,702 69,645Other offences 340 985 112 31 106 186 1,760Total 157,471 79,917 8,879 25,835 32,403 199,565 504,070

Proportion (%)Crimes against the person 28.6% 26.4% 0.7% 8.6% 18.7% 17.0% 100.0%Property and deception offences

23.0% 9.5% 1.1% 1.5% 3.4% 61.4% 100.0%

Drug offences 66.6% 11.3% 15.3% 0.3% 3.4% 3.1% 100.0%Public order and security offences

35.2% 20.7% 1.7% 34.7% 3.7% 3.9% 100.0%

Justice procedures offences 52.4% 28.4% 0.1% 3.5% 7.4% 8.2% 100.0%Other offences 19.3% 56.0% 6.4% 1.8% 6.0% 10.6% 100.0%Total 31.2% 15.9% 1.8% 5.1% 6.4% 39.6% 100.0%

Other includes: Penalty infringement notice, caution not authorised, complaint withdrawn, notice to appear, no offence disclosed, not authorised, offender processed, warrant issued, summons not authorised, presentment and other statuses.


3. Alleged offender incidentsAn alleged offender incident is an incident involving one or more offences to which an individual, business or organisation has been recorded as an alleged offender. An alleged offender incident represents one alleged offender but may involve multiple victims and offences. One incident may involve offences that occur over a period of time but if processed by Victoria Police as one incident, it will have a count of one in the data presented in this section.

There may be multiple incidents within the reference period that involve the same individual, business or organisation as an offender, where this occurs they will be counted for each incident. If there are multiple alleged offenders related to a criminal event, each will have their alleged offender incident counted once in the figures.

Where there were multiple offences recorded within the one incident, the incident is assigned an offence category of the most serious offence in the incident, referred to as the principal offence.

3.1 Key movements in the number and rate of alleged offender incidentsYear ending December

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 1 year% change

5 year% change

Alleged offender incidents 152,614 154,116 159,957 172,632 174,443 1.0% 14.3%

Offender rate per 100,000 2,661.8 2,639.8 2,689.9 2,844.2 2,833.0 -0.4% 6.4%

Alleged offender incidents, 10 year trend


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129,104 127,424 136,194

152,614 154,116 159,957 172,632 174,443

3.2 Sex and age of alleged offendersOf the 174,444 alleged offender incidents recorded in the last 12 months, 174,430 incidents involved a person as the alleged offender. The remainder involved an organisation or other entity. Of the alleged offender incidents that involved a person there were 138,724 incidents involving a male offender, making up 79.5% of all person offenders, while 35,669 incidents involved a female offender, making up 20.4% of person offenders. The remaining alleged offenders had an unknown sex.

Alleged offender incidents by sex and age, year ending December 2017

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5,331

5,669

5,150

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2,421

1,312

703

378

365

Females Males

The number of male offender incidents increased by 0.2% (296 incidents) from the previous year. Incidents involving a female offender increased by 4.3% (1,478 incidents) from the previous year.

Male offenders between 20–29 years of age accounted for approximately one third of all male offenders in the year

18 Alleged offender incidents – year ending December 2017

ending December 2017 (30.4% or 42,195 incidents). For female offenders, a similar proportion (30.8% or 11,000 incidents) were also between 20–29 years of age.


3.3 Number of alleged offender incidents by principal offence categoryIn order to best represent the type of offence associated with an incident involving multiple offences, the most serious offence within an incident is determined and this becomes the principal offence to represent the incident.

In the past five years, the number of alleged offender incidents with a principal offence of Crimes against the person has been steadily increasing and increased 7.6% (3,404) from the previous year. In the last 12 months, Crimes against the person made up 27.6% of all offender incidents.

By principal offence, the category that made up the largest proportion of offender incidents was Property and deception offences, however this category decreased 0.4% (269 incidents) from the previous year. These offences made up 37.8% (65,880 incidents) of all offender incidents.

Alleged offender incidents by principal offence, 5 year trend

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Alleged offender incidents with a principal offence of Drug offences have decreased 2.8 % (377 incidents) in the past year, comprising 13,892 alleged offender incidents. This offence division made up 8.0% of all offender incidents.

Offender incidents with a principal offence of Public order and security offences and Justice procedures offences both decreased to 20,411 and 25,702 incidents respectively.


3.4 Outcome As at 18 January 2018, two in five offender incidents (39.7% or 69,309) recorded in the past 12 months resulted in an Arrest, while 46,521 (26.7%) resulted in a Summons and 35,053 (20.1%) in an Intent to Summons being recorded. There were 9,847 (5.6%) offender incidents where a Caution or Official warning was issued.

An Intent to Summons is an interim investigation status and is not necessarily the final outcome of an incident. As the data is captured at a point in time, the investigation status of each incident is subject to change.

Alleged offender incidents by outcome, year ending December 2017

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50,000

60,000

70,000

80,000

Other includes: Penalty infringement notice, not authorised, warrant issued, notice to appear, presentment and other statuses.


3.5 Key movements in the number of alleged offender incidents by Indigenous statusAn Indigenous status for alleged offender incidents is based on the most frequent recording status for each offender.

Under this counting rule, a person has either a yes or no response to the Standard Indigenous Question on their record, then the most frequently appearing response (‘yes’ or ‘no’) is taken as correct. If the person only has one meaningful response, then that response stands across all records. If a person appears in the dataset two different times with a ‘yes’ and a ‘no’ in the records, a ‘yes’ response is taken over a ‘no’ response. For more information on how this counting rule operates please see the Explanatory notes. There has been a decline in the quality of reporting for Indigenous status, with the number of offender incidents with an Unknown Indigenous status increasing by 74.2% in the last five years, which may impact on trend analysis.

Alleged offender incidents by Indigenous status, 5 year trend

Year ending December

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 1 year% change

5 year% change

Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander 8,531 8,886 9,877 10,702 10,831 1.2% 27.0%

Non-Indigenous 124,516 123,411 125,145 133,010 129,562 -2.6% 4.1%

Unknown 19,541 21,798 24,919 28,911 34,036 17.7% 74.2%

Total 152,588 154,095 159,941 172,623 174,429 1.0% 14.3%

Alleged offender incidents by Indigenous status and age, year ending December 2017

10–14

15–19

20–24

25–29

30–34

35–39

40–44

45–49

50–54

55–59

60–64

65 +

6.7%

18.3%

16.9%

16.0%

12.4%

11.7%

7.5%

6.0%

2.7%

1.0%

0.3%

0.1%

2.7%

12.7%

14.8%

16.4%

15.1%

12.7%

9.6%

7.0%

3.7%

2.0%

1.1%

1.3%

Non-Indigenous Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander

The age distribution for Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people varies in comparison to non-Indigenous people in Australia. On average, Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people tend to be younger than non-Indigenous people. For these statistics, the CSA has not controlled for these differing age populations.


4. Victim reportsA victim report is counted when an individual, business or organisation is recorded on LEAP as being a victim of one or more criminal offences. A victim report involves only one victim but can involve multiple offences and alleged offenders. One report may involve offences that occur over a period of time but if processed by Victoria Police as one report it will have a count of one in the data presented in this section.

Where there were multiple offences recorded within the one victim report, the report is represented by an assigned offence category of the most serious offence, this is referred to as the principal offence.

4.1 Key movements in the number and rate of victim reportsYear ending December

2013 2014 2015 2016 20171 year

% change 5 year

% change

Victim reports 280,549 278,790 298,279 338,596 298,971 -11.7% 6.6%

Victimisation rate per 100,000 4,893.1 4,775.3 5,016.0 5,578.5 4,855.4 -13.0% -0.8%

Victim reports, 10 year trend

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 20170

50,000

100,000

150,000

200,000

250,000

300,000

350,000

400,000

290,642276,817

265,741 266,527283,983 280,549 278,790

298,279

338,596

298,971


4.2 Sex and age of victimsIn the last 12 months, 219,855 victims were people and 79,116 victims were businesses or organisations.

The section below outlines the demographic characteristics where the victim is a person and where this information was recorded by Victoria Police. Of the 214,527 victim reports where a sex was recorded, 55.0% (117,908 victim reports) involved a male victim, while 45.0% (96,619 victim reports) involved a female victim.

Victim reports by age group and sex, year ending December 2017

00–0910–1415–1920–2425–2930–3435–3940–4445–4950–5455–5960–6465–6970–74

75 +

1,3372,095

5,75212,389

14,83214,438

12,12710,92310,832

8,9037,545

5,6244,049

2,6022,562

1,2012,427

6,19511,324

12,61011,594

10,2979,183

8,6266,553

5,1103,472

2,4261,647

2,225

Females Males

Patterns of age are similar between men and women where a victim report was recorded by Victoria Police, however proportionally, female victims are concentrated in the younger age groups with 21.9% of female victims below 25 years of age compared to 18.3% of males. There were slightly more male victims in the older age groups than females, with 35.7% of males aged 45 and over compared with 31.1% of women.

Victims of a Property and deception offence were more likely to be males, making up 57.4% (89,194) of the victim reports in this offence category. For the offence category Crimes against the person, females were more likely than males to be victims with 52.6% (33,849) of this offence category.

4.3 Number of victim reports by principal offence categoryIn order to assign an offence type to a victim report with multiple offences, the most serious offence within a report is determined and this becomes the principal offence for the victim report.

Of the 298,971 victim reports in the last 12 months, 234,174 (78.3%) had a principal offence of Property and deception offences, 64,729 reports (21.7%) were Crimes against the person and Other offences (68 reports) made up the remainder of all victim reports.

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5. Family incidentsA family incident is an incident attended by Victoria Police where a Victoria Police Risk Assessment and Risk Management Report (also known as an L17 form) was completed and recorded on LEAP.

5.1 Key movements in the number and rate of family incidentsYear ending December

2013 2014 2015 2016 20171 year

% change 5 year

% changeFamily incidents 63,114 68,134 74,376 78,624 75,061 -4.5% 18.9%

Family incident rate per 100,000 1,100.8 1,167.1 1,250.8 1,295.4 1,219.0 -5.9% 10.7%

Family incidents, 5 year trend

2013 2014 2015 2016 20170

10,000

20,000

30,000

40,000

50,000

60,000

70,000

80,000

90,000

63,11468,134

74,37678,624

75,061

For more information on family incident rates by Local Government Area, please see the family incident data tables.


Family incidents, 5 year trend by month

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec4,000

4,500

5,000

5,500

6,000

6,500

7,000

7,500

8,000

201320142015

Over the last 12 months, there were between 5,676 and 7,175 family incidents recorded per month. The months with the highest number of recorded family incidents were January 2017 (7,175 incidents) and December 2015 (7,088 incidents). This is consistent with the peak in family incidents in previous years.

5.2. Demographic characteristics of affected family membersAn ‘affected family member’ is the individual who is deemed to be affected by events occurring during the family incident. Where an individual is involved in multiple family incidents within the reference period they will be counted for each incident that they are involved in.

Where more than one affected family member has been affected by one other party within a family incident, they will be counted for each involvement. For example, where a family incident involves three affected family members and one other party, each affected family member will be counted separately, making a count of three.

Where an affected family member has been affected by more than one other party within a family incident, they will be counted for each involvement. For example if there is one affected family member and two other parties the affected family member will be counted twice, once for each involvement.

In the last 12 months, 74.6% (55,998) of the 75,061 affected family members were female, while 25.1% (18,818) were male.

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Affected family members by age and sex, year ending December 2017

00–0405–0910–1415–1920–2425–2930–3435–3940–4445–4950–5455–5960–64

65+

342792

1,1191,295

1,7001,7131,7461,763

1,8521,862

1,4381,001

7201,264

291618

1,5303,713

6,4526,963

7,5257,292

6,2905,426

3,3632,170

1,3772,146

Females Males

Of the 55,998 female affected family members, just over one quarter (26.5%, 14,817) were aged between 30–39 years. Females aged between 20–49 years made up 71.3% (39,948) of female affected family members.

The largest age groups of male affected family members was 20-49 years which accounted for 56.5% (10,636) of all male affected family members.

5.3 Demographic characteristics of other partiesThe other individual involved in a family incident is referred to as the ‘other party’. The other party could be a current partner, former partner or a family member. Where the other party is involved with multiple affected family members, they will be counted for each involvement. For example, where a family incident involves three affected family members and one other party, each affected family member will be counted separately, making a count of three.

Where the other party is involved with multiple affected family members, they will be counted for each involvement. For example, where a family incident involves one affected family member and two other parties, each other party will be counted separately, making a count of two.

Where an individual is involved in multiple family incidents within the reference period they will be counted for each incident that they are involved in.

In the last 12 months there were 75,063 other parties recorded, of which 76.1% (57,103) were male and 23.4% (17,599) were female.


Other party by age and sex, year ending December 2017

00–09

10–1415–19

20–2425–29

30–3435–3940–44

45–4950–54

55–5960–64

65 +

75

1,1734,227

6,3927,827

8,2358,289

7,236

5,9333,299

1,766918

1,256

20

7051,757

2,1582,251

2,3342,382

2,049

1,686955

477265340

Females Males

Of the male other parties, two-thirds (66.5%, 37,979) were aged between 20–44 years. Females aged between 20–44 years made up 63.5% (11,174) of all female other parties.

For more information on the demographic characteristics of affected family members and other parties, please see the family incident data tables.

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Appendix 1. Explanatory notesThe Crime Statistics Agency (CSA) presents statistics about the characteristics of crime recorded on the Victoria Police Law Enforcement Assistance Program (LEAP). The following explanatory notes are designed to provide additional information about the data the CSA receives from Victoria Police, how it is processed and how to interpret the summary statistics.

Data sourceThe crime statistics produced by the CSA are derived from administrative information recorded by Victoria Police and extracted from the LEAP database. Victoria Police provides this information to the CSA 18 days after the reference period.

As the LEAP database is a live operational data system and updated regularly, the data presented reflects only the information in the database at the date and time of extraction. This means that as additional quarters of data are released by the CSA, the data relating to previous periods may change as data are updated in LEAP, investigations progress and cases are completed by Victoria Police.

Scope and coverageThe CSA recorded crime collection includes all offences that are reported to, and detected by, Victoria Police and recorded on the LEAP database. The scope and coverage of the data, however, is not representative of all crime that occurs in Victoria. Some crimes may not be recorded on LEAP, not be reported to police, or the responsibility for responding to certain offences may lie with another agency.

The following data are not available to the CSA and are not included in these statistics: missing person details; police custody information; traffic infringements; regulatory activity not directly undertaken by Victoria Police, including infringement issuing and

management; Victoria Police staff and human resource management information (including financial and asset

information); information about Victoria Police operations and taskforces; areas of Victoria managed by federal agencies, such as crown land and Melbourne airport, which are under

the jurisdiction of the Australian Federal Police; investigations managed by Australian Government agencies, such as the Australian Crime Commission; and information related to prosecutions.

Data in the CSA Crime by location tool excludes offences that are recorded in LEAP but were committed at “Other locations in Victoria” such as Unincorporated Victoria or Justice institutions and immigration facilities, outside Victoria, and where an Local Government Area (LGA) is not recorded. This is because these offences cannot be meaningfully rendered on the map of Victoria.


Comparisons between Victoria Police and Crime Statistics Agency statisticsThe following outlines differences in the scope and counting rules of recorded crime statistics produced by Victoria Police and the CSA. Crime statistics previously produced by Victoria Police excluded the following Penalty Infringement Notices (PINs) which are now included in CSA counts:

549MP - CONTRAVENE POLICE DIRECTION TO MOVE ON 596A - DRUNK IN PUBLIC PLACE 596B - DRUNK AND DISORDERLY IN PUBLIC PLACE 599HC - BEHAVE IN DISORDERLY MANNER PUBLIC PLACE

Where a single offence has multiple weapons recorded against it, Victoria Police historically selected the first weapon to appear on the dataset for the particular offence. The CSA selects the most serious weapon that appears on the record (for example, a handgun will be selected over a knife, and so on).

Offence categoriesThe CSA developed an offence classification for statistical output purposes. This offence classification has been mapped to all raw offences recorded by Victoria Police. In comparison with the categories used historically by Victoria Police for statistical reporting, the CSA offence classification contains more detailed categories and reduced the number of offences mapped to Other, Missing and Unknown categories.

Due to these differences and additional changes to the calculation of rates, the CSA advises that data previously published by Victoria Police should not be compared with CSA recorded crime statistics.

Reference periodsThe reference period is the length of time that the statistics relate to. The CSA will produce three quarterly year-to-date statistical reports a year, and one annual statistical report for the financial year. Each report is based on 12 months of data with different reference periods. This is outlined in the table below:

Report title Reference period Month of release

Year ending 31 December 1 January to 31 December March

Year ending 31 March 1 April to 31 March June

Annual report to 30 September 1 July to 30 September September

Year ending 30 September 1 October to 30 September December

The ‘Latest crime data’ section of the website shows the most recently published statistics, and links to the previous three quarters. The data presented in the crime by location map covers the most recent five years of statistics.

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Composition of quarterly data for statistical reportingQuarterly crime statistics produced by the CSA are based on a rolling 12 month set of statistics that collate four quarters of data. As such, three quarters from the previous reference period are carried forward into the next 12 month period, with the addition of the most recent quarter. This means that changes that may occur within one quarter will be included in four different crime statistics releases.

The reference period will be different depending on the period of time that the rolling 12 months of data covers. For example, data for the January to December reference period refers to the 12 month period beginning on the 1st of January through to the 31st of December of that year. In the March to April reference period that directly follows the January to December period, nine months of data from the previous reference period (March to December) is used with three months of new data (January to March) to compile a 12 month time period for analysis. This is outlined in the diagram below:

2017 2018

January to March

April to June

July to September

October to December

January to March

April to June

July to September

October to December

Jan - Dec 2017

Apr 2017 - Mar 2018

Jul 2017 - Jun 2018

Oct 2017 - Sept 2018

Jan - Dec 2018

Reference periods based on the date records are createdThe reference periods are based on the date that information is created in LEAP, regardless of when the offence occurred or when it was reported to police. The date the record was created is used because it is the date most consistently recorded on LEAP.

Counting methodology

Recorded criminal incidentsA recorded criminal incident is a criminal event that may include multiple offences, alleged offenders and/or victims that is recorded on the LEAP database on a single date and at one location.

Any incidents where Victoria Police have deemed that no offence occurred, or where no further police action is required (such as warrants or summons not authorised) are excluded from the criminal incident counts. The exception to this are incidents that have occurred and been recorded by police, but where a person later withdraws their complaint. As these still represent a criminal incident, they will continue to be included in the recorded crime statistics.

Where there were multiple offences or charges recorded within one criminal incident, a single offence or charge is assigned to represent the most serious crime committed for statistical purposes, known as the principal offence (see Principal variable calculations).


Date of record creation

Recorded criminal incident data are compiled on the basis of the date that the principal offence was created on the LEAP database, rather than the date the principal offence was detected by, or reported to police. The record create date may differ from the date when the incident occurred, or the date when the incident came to the attention of police.

The date the principal offence was created is used because it is the date most consistently recorded on LEAP, and cannot be edited or updated. The date an offence was reported and the date an offence was committed can both be updated and changed at any stage of an investigation.

Offences recordedRecorded offences include any criminal act or omission by a person or organisation for which a penalty could be imposed by the Victorian legal system.

For the purposes of CSA statistics, an offence is counted and included in the data where it: was reported to, or detected by, Victoria Police; and, was first recorded in LEAP within the reference period.

The exception to this is those offences that are out of scope of the data collected by the CSA.

Depending on the type of offence committed and the outcomes of investigation, police may either initiate a court or non-court legal action against an offender. Non-court legal actions comprise legal actions such as informal or formal cautions or warnings and the issuing of penalty notices, which do not require an appearance in court.

Offences that are recorded but remain unsolved at the date the data was extracted are included in the CSA dataset.


Recorded offence data are compiled on the basis of the date that the offence was created on the LEAP database, rather than the date the offence was detected by, or reported to police. The create date may not be the date when the offence occurred, or the date when the offence came to the attention of police.

The date the record was created is used because it is the date most consistently recorded on LEAP, and cannot be edited or updated. The date the offence was reported and the date the offence was committed can both be updated and changed at any stage of an investigation.

The date the offence was reported is included on the LEAP dataset provided to the CSA, but after conducting a quality assessment, the CSA has determined that the coverage of report date information in the data is of insufficient quality to support reliable calculation of the offence population on this date. The use of report date for statistical purposes will continue and be reviewed in the future as coverage and data quality improves.

Alleged offender incidentsAn alleged offender incident is an incident involving one or more offences to which a person, business or organisation has been linked as an alleged offender. An alleged offender incident represents one alleged offender but may involve multiple victims and offences. One incident may involve offences that occur over a period of time but if processed by Victoria Police as one incident it will have a count of one in the data presented in this section. If there are multiple alleged offenders related to a criminal event, each will have their alleged offender incident counted once in the published figures.


There may be multiple incidents within the reference period that involve the same individual, business or organisation as an offender. Where there were multiple offences recorded within the one incident, the incident is assigned an offence category of the most serious offence in the incident for statistical purposes, known as the principal offence (see Principal variable calculations).

Date of result

Alleged offender incidents are compiled on the basis of the date that a result was recorded on the LEAP database. The date of result is used because it is the most consistent date recorded on LEAP and directly corresponds to the status of investigation relating to the incident.

Victim reportsA victim report is counted when an individual, business or organisation is recorded on LEAP as being a victim of one or more criminal offences. A victim report count involves only one victim but can involve multiple offences and alleged offenders. One report may involve offences that occur over a period of time but if processed by Victoria Police as one report it will have a count of one in the published figures. If there are multiple victims related to a criminal event, each will have their victim report counted once in the published figures.

An individual, business or organisation can be counted as a victim more than once within the reference period, if they have made more than one separate report to Victoria Police.

Where there were multiple offences recorded within the one victim report, the report is represented for statistical purposes by an assigned offence category of the most serious offence. This is known as the principal offence (see Principal variable calculations).


Victim reports data are compiled on the basis of the date that the principal offence was created on the LEAP database, rather than the date the principal offence was detected by, or reported to police. The record create date may not be the date when the offence occurred, or the date when the offence came to the attention of police.

The date the principal offence was created is used because it is the date most consistently recorded on LEAP, and cannot be edited or updated. The date an offence was reported and the date an offence was committed can both be updated and changed at any stage of an investigation.

Family incidentsA family incident is an incident attended by Victoria Police where a Victoria Police Risk Assessment and Risk Management Report (also known as an L17 form) was completed.

A family incident can involve one or more affected family members and/or one or more other parties. For statistical purposes, these are counted as one incident but may appear multiple times in demographic counts.

The overall increase in the number of recorded family incidents in the past five years has in part been due to improved recording of incidents. Since 2011, initiatives such as the Family Violence Code of Practice have been put in place by Victoria Police to improve the recording of family incidents, the individuals involved and the offences committed.

Demographic characteristics of affected family members and other parties

An ‘affected family member’ is the individual who is deemed to be affected by events occurring during the family incident. The other individual involved in a family incident is referred to as the ‘other party’. The other party could be a current partner, former partner or a family member.


Where more than one affected family member has been affected by one other party within a family incident, they will be counted for each involvement. For example, where a family incident involves three affected family members and one other party, each affected family member will be counted separately, making a count of three.

Where the other party is involved with multiple affected family members, they will be counted for each involvement. For example, where a family incident involves one affected family member and two other parties, each other party will be counted separately, making a count of two.

Where an individual is involved in multiple family incidents within the reference period they will be counted for each incident that they are involved in.


Family incidents data are compiled on the basis of the date that the incident was created on the LEAP database, rather than the date the incident was detected by, or reported to police. The record create date may differ from the date when the incident occurred, or the date when the incident came to the attention of police.

The date the record was created is used because it is the date most consistently recorded on LEAP, and cannot be edited or updated. The date the offence was reported and the date the offence was committed can both be updated and changed at any stage of an investigation.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status ‘most frequent’ ruleA ‘most frequent’ rule has been adopted as the primary counting rule for the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander status of offenders in CSA recorded crime statistics. Under this counting rule, a person has either a yes or no response to the Standard Indigenous Question (SIQ), then the most frequently appearing response is taken as correct. If the person only has one meaningful response (‘yes’ or ‘no’), then that response stands across all records. If a person appears in the dataset two different times with a ‘yes’ and a ‘no’ in the records, a ‘yes’ response is taken over a ‘no’ response. Figures 1 and 2 illustrate how this counting rule operates in two different scenarios.

A most frequent response may be less susceptible to data entry error, as a person with a number of appearances would require multiple incorrect responses in the dataset to be incorrectly assigned. The more entries a person has in the dataset, the greater the likelihood that their data is correct. The only exception to this would be where a person wishes to change the way they identify and respond to the question over time. This would not be recognised until the majority of a person’s entries in the database reflected their current status. This rule is also dependent upon the SIQ being asked and recorded on each occasion.


Figure 1. Illustrative example of the application of a ‘most frequent’ derivation rule to output from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander status variable relating to an offender

Figure 2. Illustrative example of the application of a ‘most frequent’ derivation rule to output from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander status variable relating to an offender

Principal variable calculationsSome variables in the recorded crime dataset may legitimately have more than one item recorded against them. To represent this data in a summary form, the multiple responses are ordered using hierarchical classifications, which allow the CSA to select a principal response to represent each record.

Principal offenceOffence categories presented in the criminal incidents, alleged offender incidents and victim report tables refer to the principal offence representing the incident. Where there is only a single offence attached to a unique incident, that offence is the principal offence by default. Where multiple offences are recorded within the same incident, a principal offence is assigned using the CSA Offence Index.

For criminal incidents, the CSA will represent the incident by displaying the most serious charge laid. If no charges were laid, the most serious offence recorded will be presented.


CSA Offence Index

The CSA Offence Index is a tool by which the seriousness of offence types can be ranked against each other in order to calculate the most serious offence (principal offence). The CSA Offence Index was largely adapted from the Australian Bureau of Statistics National Offence Index (cat. no. 1234.0.55.001). The diagram below describes examples of how the principal offence is determined based on seriousness.

Example Incident A: Where an incident involves one offence of Murder, one offence of Stalking and one offence of Breach of bail, the principal offence would be presented as Murder.

Example Incident B: Where an incident involves one offence of Serious assault and one offence of Offensive language, the principal offence would be presented as Serious assault.

Example Incident C: Where an incident involves only one offence of Graffiti, then the principal offence would be presented as Graffiti by default.

Location typeFor offences where more than one location type is recorded, the location type is selected based on the following hierarchy:

1. Residential location2. Community location3. Other location

For more information on the location type index, please see the location type classification.


Relationship of victim to alleged offenderFor victim reports where more than one relationship type is recorded, the relationship type is selected based on the following hierarchy:

1. Current partner2. Former partner3. Family member4. Non family member5. Not known to victim (stranger)6. Unknown or not recorded relationship

For more information on the relationship type index, please see the relationship type classification.

Regional statisticsRecorded crime statistics for offences, criminal incidents, alleged offender incidents, victim reports and family incidents are presented by Police Region and LGA. The CSA also presents offences and criminal incidents data by postcode and suburb in the offences and recorded incidents data visualisations. For more information on the geographic locations used in the CSA data please see the geographic location hierarchy.

Improved location information The CSA has analysed the recording of geographic data in LEAP and has found that there are some inconsistencies which impact the overall quality of location-specific information. The CSA has used a combination of different location variables received from Victoria Police to improve the quality of location data, which better represents where a specific incident occurred. This work has improved the quality of location-based information to inform the public about where crime occurs across the state, and has been implemented for offences and recorded incidents data. These changes are visible in the data published in the year ending June 2017 release onwards.

Justice and Immigration Institutional Facilities For the purposes of statistical reporting, a number of facilities are now counted separately from the LGA, postcode or locality in which they are located. These include correctional facilities, youth justice facilities and immigration detention centres, and are categorised as ‘Justice institution or immigration facility’. These facilities are counted separately in the year ending June 2017 release onwards.

The CSA has identified justice institutions or immigration facilities by using their street address, location type and location description information. If there is uncertainty about where an incident occurs, the CSA will continue to show the offence in the crime counts for the area (at LGA, postcode or suburb level).


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The following are included in the ‘Justice institution or immigration facility’ category:

• Barwon Prison (inc. Grevilla Youth Justice Precinct)

• Beechworth Correctional Centre• Dame Phyllis Frost Centre• Dhurringile Prison• Fulham Correctional Centre• Hopkins Correctional Centre (inc. Corrella Place)• Judy Lazarus Transition Centre• Langi Kal Kal Prison (inc. Emu Creek)• Loddon Prison (including the Middleton Annexe)

• Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre• Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre• Marngoneet Correctional Centre (inc. the Kareenga

Annexe)• Melbourne Assessment Prison• Melbourne Youth Justice Centre (Parkville)• Metropolitan Remand Centre• Port Phillip Prison• Ravenhall Correctional Centre• Tarrengower Prison

The Grevillea Youth Justice Precinct was gazetted from 17 November 2016 to 23 May 2017 and shared the same street address as Barwon Prison. Criminal incidents recorded by Victoria Police that occurred at the Precinct during its operation are unable to be separately identified, and are included in the counts for Barwon Prison.

Incidents that occur at facilities such as Corella Place or Emu Creek are included in this category, as the CSA cannot effectively distinguish between these locations and the adjacent prison using the location recorded by Victoria Police.

The following locations have been excluded from this category:

Melbourne Custody Centre – This centre cannot be distinguished from the courts in the data, and is not deemed a justice institution that permanently holds prisoners. However, convicted or unconvicted persons may be detained temporarily in these facilities.

Thomas Embling Hospital – This hospital is a partially secure facility that treats patients from within the criminal justice system and the mental health system, however not all patients within this facility are serving correctional sentences.

Wulgunggo Ngalu Learning Place –this is a transitional facility for offenders on Community Corrections orders and is used to provide services such as employment, education and life skills.

Police cells – as police cells are managed by Victoria Police and do not permanently hold convicted offenders, these are not considered justice institutions or immigration facilities. However, convicted or unconvicted persons may be detained for a short period of time in these facilities.

Any incidents that occur at these locations will still be included in localised crime counts.

Rates per 100,000 populationRates per 100,000 people in Victoria are calculated for offences, criminal incidents, alleged offender incidents, victim reports and family incidents.

Rates per 100,000 population are derived using the incident, report or offence count for the reference period and the most recent Estimated Resident Population (ERP) data.


Rates are calculated using the following formulae:

Offence rate = (Offence count/ERP count) *100,000 Criminal incident rate = (Criminal incident count/ERP count) *100,000 Alleged offender rate = (Alleged offender incident count/ERP count) *100,000 Victimisation rate = (Victim report count/ERP count) *100,000 Family incident rate = (Family incident count/ERP count) *100,000

ERPs for both Victoria and Local Government Areas are based on populations provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. ERPs for the data in the current reference period are based on population projection estimates developed by the Victorian Government’s ‘Victoria in Future’ program (VIF2016 Victoria ERP age and sex 2011-20511). For years prior to the current reference period, the ERP used to calculate offence rates is the ABS ERP.

ABS ERP data comes from two publications:

ERP by age and sex are collected from 3101.0 - Australian Demographic Statistics, Sept 2016 (Released at 11:30AM (Canberra time) 23/03/2017).

ERP by LGA are collected from 3218.0 - Regional Population Growth, Australia 2015-16 (Released at 11:30AM (Canberra time) 30/03/2017).

For more information about the ABS estimated resident population, refer to the ABS website. For more information about the ‘Victoria in Future’ report, refer to the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources website.

Victorian population figures used for year ending December 2017 publication

ABS - Australian Demographic Statistics Victoria in Future

Jan – Dec 2013 Jan – Dec 2014 Jan – Dec 2015 Jan – Dec 2016 Jan – Dec 2017

5,733,545 5,838,110 5,946,505 6,069,636 6,157,538

24 month trend test – Kendall’s tauThe trend test presented in the data tables highlights movement in data that is of a consistent and continuing nature over the previous 24 months. The CSA uses the Kendall's Rank Order Correlation statistical test (or Kendall's tau) to determine whether a series is trending upwards or downwards over the specified time period. The procedure that the CSA uses is to conduct the Kendall’s Rank Order Correlation on the monthly total number of offences, the monthly total number of criminal incidents for each principal offence, and LGA over the previous 24 months.

From the year ending June 2017 release onwards, the CSA also applies a threshold that involves the satisfaction of one of two criteria, in order for the trend test to be conducted. If a category fails both sets of criteria, then the significance test will not be conducted.

1. Less than 30 incidents/offences in any month – This approximates to one incident/offence per day and ensures that there is sufficient data of a sufficient quality before it is analysed.

2. Percentage Proportion threshold (<0.1% of all recorded incidents/offences) – To ensure that the data

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for a particular category contributes a meaningful proportion of the overall before it analysed.


This two-pronged threshold, means that Offence categories and LGA’s will only be excluded if the number of incidents/offences recorded are less than 30 in any given month and the proportion of overall criminal incidents/offences is less than 0.1%. Note that in very few circumstances, the significance test will show a significant trend, even when the yearly percentage change is very low or in the opposite direction. In other cases, the test will be nonsignificant, even when the yearly percentage change is very high. This can occur in cases where there are seasonal or non-linear variations in the data, or if extreme spikes in the data are present. Kendall’s Rank Order Correlation test is not robust against these variations, and is only sensitive to generally increasing and decreasing trends.

ConfidentialisationConfidentialising data involves removing or altering information or collapsing detail (through application of statistical disclosure controls) to mitigate the risk that a person or organisation may be identified in the data (either directly or indirectly).

Alleged offender incidents, victim reports and family incidents data contain person-based variables and include demographic information. Therefore, these datasets are subject to confidentialisation to ensure the anonymity of individuals is protected where numbers are small and there is a reasonable likelihood that a person may be identified from the data published.

The CSA will confidentialise cells in a table that are between 1 and 3. This is denoted in the tables by the value “≤ 3” appearing in cells with small numbers.

For the purpose of calculating row and column totals, each cell between 1 and 3 is assigned a value of 2, regardless of the true number of that cell. This methodology allows for totals to be calculated in tables with small cells, but this does mean that totals for certain variables may not be the same across tables within a publication or set of data cubes. This process is applied prior to the release of statistical data by the CSA.

Legislative changes affecting recorded crime statisticsBreach of bail conditions

Amendments to the Bail Act 1997 which were introduced in December 2013 inserted the following sections into the act:

S30A Offence to contravene certain conduct conditions S30B Offence to commit indictable offence whilst on bail

These amendments resulted in the introduction of two new offence codes on LEAP. There has subsequently been an increase in the number of offences recorded against the category Breach of bail conditions.

Breach of family violence orders

The Justice Legislation Amendment (Family Violence and Other Matters) Act 2012 inserted the following sections into the Family Violence Protection Act 2008:

S37A Contravention of notice intending to cause harm or fear for safety S123A Contravention of order intending to cause harm or fear for safety S125A Persistent contravention of notices and orders


Sections 37A and 123A make it an indictable offence to contravene a Family Violence Safety Notice or Family Violence Intervention Order where there was intention to cause harm or fear of safety to the person protected by the notice or order.

Section 125A makes it an indictable offence to persistently contravene Family Violence Safety Notices or Family Violence Intervention Orders.

The above amendments came into effect in April 2013 and resulted in the introduction of three new offence codes on LEAP. There has been a subsequent increase in the number of offences recorded against the category Breach of family violence orders.

Operational changes affecting recorded crime statisticsCommit indictable offence whilst on bail

In November 2014, Victoria Police changed their operational procedures for the recording of some breach of bail charges, affecting the way these offences are captured for recorded crime statistics. This change has impacted the number of offences recorded for ‘527Z Commit indictable offence whilst on bail’, and as a result the number of offences recorded in this category may be understated.

This change has not had any impact on the recording of other breach of bail offences in LEAP. The CSA is assessing the impact of this change for future releases.

Recording of ‘Fail to stop’ offences

From 13 July 2015, Victoria police changed their operational procedures in relation to ‘Fail to stop’ offences. These changes have led to these offences now being recorded in LEAP and included in the extract of recorded crime data provided to the CSA. This previously resulted in an increase in the number of offences recorded against the following Road Safety Act (1986) offences:

749AUC Fail to stop vehicle on direction 749XM Fail to stop vehicle on request.

As a result, there has been an increase in the CSA offence category ‘E13 Resist or hinder officer’ since October 2015. For the current reference period there were only offences recorded for ‘749AUC Fail to stop vehicle on direction’.

Abbreviations used in the dataFor ease of reading, some CSA offence terms have been abbreviated throughout this publication. The term 'and related offences' has been omitted from the following CSA offence category names:

Homicide and related offences Assault and related offences Abduction and related offences

In addition, the following CSA offence terms have been abbreviated as follows:

Stalking, harassment and threatening behaviour appears as 'Stalking/harassment' Dangerous or negligent acts endangering persons appears as 'Dangerous/negligent acts'

For further information about CSA offence classifications, refer to the CSA offence classification or the glossary and data dictionary section of the website.


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RevisionsWhere required, the CSA may revise historical data in the most recent statistical releases to reflect the most up to date information recorded.

Additional dataQuarterly statistical releases are designed to provide a summary of recorded crime trends. Special tabulations may be able to be produced on request to meet individual user requirements. For further information contact the Crime Statistics Agency by email at [email protected].


Appendix 2. Recorded criminal incidents by principal offence – Jan 2013 to Dec 2017


2013 2014 2015 2016 20171 year

% change

Significance trend test

over 24 months1, 2

Crimes against the personA10 Homicide and related offences 131 153 165 177 189 6.8% -

A20 Assault and related offences 33,466 33,123 34,177 38,683 38,951 0.7% STABLEA30 Sexual offences 5,378 5,779 6,064 7,142 8,279 15.9% UPA40 Abduction and related offences 372 352 378 464 408 -12.1% DOWN

A50 Robbery 1,975 1,744 1,928 2,422 2,613 7.9% STABLEA60 Blackmail and extortion 132 122 129 139 130 -6.5% -A70 Stalking, harassment and threatening behaviour 5,532 5,751 6,017 6,787 6,976 2.8% STABLE

A80 Dangerous and negligent acts endangering people 2,551 2,900 3,244 4,144 4,402 6.2% STABLE

Sub total 49,537 49,924 52,102 59,958 61,948 3.3%Property and deception offences

B10 Arson 3,450 3,341 3,373 3,629 2,919 -19.6% DOWNB20 Property damage 39,613 36,270 36,072 37,814 35,761 -5.4% STABLEB30 Burglary/Break and enter 43,981 43,480 47,634 52,045 44,062 -15.3% DOWNB40 Theft 124,656 125,810 135,983 156,965 130,923 -16.6% DOWNB50 Deception 16,661 16,228 17,355 21,103 20,488 -2.9% STABLEB60 Bribery 5 14 10 4 4 0.0% -

Sub total228,366 225,143 240,42

7 271,560 234,157 -13.8%

Drug offencesC10 Drug dealing and trafficking 2,666 2,830 3,208 3,122 2,729 -12.6% DOWNC20 Cultivate or manufacture drugs 1,126 1,096 1,224 1,121 1,049 -6.4% STABLE

C30 Drug use and possession 9,855 10,320 11,008 11,480 10,855 -5.4% STABLEC90 Other drug offences 13 13 7 9 15 66.7% -Sub total 13,660 14,259 15,447 15,732 14,648 -6.9%Public order and security offencesD10 Weapons and explosives offences 6,973 7,453 8,700 9,326 8,710 -6.6% STABLE

D20 Disorderly and offensive conduct 19,120 17,165 14,636 13,038 13,005 -0.3% STABLE

D30 Public nuisance offences 1,437 1,298 1,532 1,966 1,947 -1.0% STABLED40 Public security offences 35 29 26 30 52 73.3% -

44 Recorded criminal incidents by principal offence – January 2013 to December 2017


2013 2014 2015 2016 20171 year

% change


over 24 months1, 2

Sub total 27,565 25,945 24,894 24,360 23,714 -2.7%Justice procedures offencesE10 Justice procedures 3,128 2,999 4,747 9,011 7,392 -18.0% DOWNE20 Breaches of orders 16,629 26,072 31,299 38,756 37,433 -3.4% STABLESub total 19,757 29,071 36,046 47,767 44,825 -6.2%Other offencesF10 Regulatory driving offences 17 27 16 9 8 -11.1% -F20 Transport regulation offences 225 253 247 377 326 -13.5% -F30 Other government regulatory offences 396 318 307 268 227 -15.3% -

F90 Miscellaneous offences 244 271 267 188 213 13.3% -Sub total 882 869 837 842 774 -8.1% Total incidents 339,767 345,211 369,753 420,219 380,066 -9.6%

Data extracted from LEAP on 18 January 2018 and is subject to variation

1 The trend test serves as a guide to highlight changes that are statistically significant. For more information, please see the Explanatory notes.2 Stable denotes that the 24 month trend was neither significantly increasing nor significantly decreasing.


Appendix 3. Recorded criminal incidents by region and local government area – Jan 2013 to Dec 2017


2013 2014 2015 2016 20171 year

% change


over 24 months1, 2

North West Metro RegionBanyule 6,431 6,808 6,861 7,483 7,434 -0.7% STABLEBrimbank 15,279 13,730 14,832 15,093 13,275 -12.0% DOWNDarebin 10,017 10,977 11,476 13,227 11,460 -13.4% DOWNHobsons Bay 5,446 5,563 5,363 5,341 4,912 -8.0% DOWNHume 12,095 13,221 14,888 17,651 15,069 -14.6% DOWNMaribyrnong 6,962 6,577 6,914 7,188 6,466 -10.0% DOWNMelbourne 24,645 23,753 24,904 28,308 26,656 -5.8% DOWNMelton 6,827 7,529 8,376 9,072 8,049 -11.3% DOWNMoonee Valley 6,247 6,448 6,961 7,744 6,695 -13.5% STABLEMoreland 9,185 10,290 11,157 12,111 10,529 -13.1% DOWNNillumbik 1,600 1,584 1,942 2,263 1,846 -18.4% DOWNWhittlesea 9,988 10,243 10,376 13,071 11,350 -13.2% DOWNWyndham 9,944 10,162 11,332 12,357 10,864 -12.1% DOWNYarra 9,205 9,958 10,057 11,303 10,581 -6.4% STABLESub total 133,871 136,843 145,439 162,212 145,186 -10.5%Eastern RegionAlpine 363 278 356 267 312 16.9% -Bass Coast 1,970 1,997 1,930 2,070 1,939 -6.3% STABLEBaw Baw 2,216 2,279 2,491 2,923 2,767 -5.3% STABLEBenalla 854 819 810 1,019 988 -3.0% STABLEBoroondara 5,967 5,681 5,897 7,057 5,749 -18.5% DOWNEast Gippsland 3,071 2,922 3,148 3,096 2,990 -3.4% STABLEGreater Shepparton 5,117 5,631 5,500 6,334 5,948 -6.1% STABLEIndigo 355 329 382 325 380 16.9% -Knox 6,924 7,164 7,357 9,174 8,439 -8.0% STABLELatrobe 7,618 7,815 9,025 10,457 9,297 -11.1% DOWNManningham 3,112 3,130 3,355 3,961 3,713 -6.3% STABLEMansfield 293 388 339 482 495 2.7% STABLEMaroondah 5,498 5,876 5,795 6,766 6,317 -6.6% DOWNMitchell 1,991 2,145 2,659 3,228 3,066 -5.0% STABLEMoira 1,177 1,082 1,103 1,369 1,455 6.3% STABLEMonash 6,819 6,880 7,519 8,956 8,182 -8.6% DOWNMurrindindi 535 516 510 547 548 0.2% STABLE

46 Recorded criminal incidents by region and local government area – January 2012 to December 2017


2013 2014 2015 2016 20171 year

% change


over 24 months1, 2

South Gippsland 895 903 906 1,140 1,007 -11.7% DOWNStrathbogie 373 341 359 479 442 -7.7% STABLETowong 212 148 167 176 174 -1.1% -Wangaratta 1,679 1,690 1,627 1,809 1,782 -1.5% STABLEWellington 2,800 2,905 2,967 3,320 2,734 -17.7% DOWNWhitehorse 5,801 5,703 5,785 6,359 6,525 2.6% STABLEWodonga 2,235 2,431 2,619 2,498 2,429 -2.8% STABLEYarra Ranges 5,050 5,352 5,441 6,456 5,729 -11.3% DOWNSub total 72,925 74,405 78,047 90,268 83,407 -7.6%Southern Metro RegionBayside 3,490 3,234 3,647 4,207 3,836 -8.8% DOWNCardinia 4,346 3,862 4,681 5,387 4,351 -19.2% DOWNCasey 12,059 12,928 15,164 18,201 15,114 -17.0% DOWNFrankston 10,783 10,630 10,928 12,496 10,719 -14.2% DOWNGlen Eira 4,735 4,329 5,143 5,677 5,350 -5.8% STABLEGreater Dandenong 12,490 12,071 13,533 15,501 13,695 -11.7% DOWNKingston 7,331 7,173 8,071 8,645 7,700 -10.9% DOWNMornington Peninsula 7,521 7,685 8,138 9,123 8,483 -7.0% DOWNPort Phillip 8,784 9,085 9,807 10,492 9,693 -7.6% DOWNStonnington 7,443 7,158 7,776 9,176 7,908 -13.8% DOWNSub total 78,982 78,155 86,888 98,905 86,849 -12.2%Western RegionArarat 878 814 926 894 942 5.4% STABLEBallarat 8,110 7,533 8,729 9,477 8,974 -5.3% STABLEBuloke 187 180 178 169 158 -6.5% -Campaspe 2,101 2,330 2,333 2,815 2,515 -10.7% DOWNCentral Goldfields 811 805 846 1,013 866 -14.5% STABLEColac-Otway 1,021 1,100 1,194 1,445 1,382 -4.4% STABLECorangamite 457 474 505 736 712 -3.3% STABLEGannawarra 413 427 456 491 443 -9.8% STABLEGlenelg 1,184 1,400 1,228 1,376 1,246 -9.4% DOWNGolden Plains 402 466 543 646 498 -22.9% DOWNGreater Bendigo 6,060 6,186 6,350 7,932 7,218 -9.0% STABLEGreater Geelong 13,564 15,083 15,488 18,654 17,182 -7.9% DOWNHepburn 527 495 585 729 661 -9.3% STABLEHindmarsh 184 147 162 235 279 18.7% -Horsham 1,347 1,577 1,972 1,881 1,586 -15.7% DOWNLoddon 260 237 313 382 294 -23.0% -Macedon Ranges 1,412 1,538 1,607 1,802 1,813 0.6% STABLEMildura 4,537 4,661 4,683 5,093 4,822 -5.3% STABLEMoorabool 1,502 1,456 1,603 2,003 1,740 -13.1% STABLE



2013 2014 2015 2016 20171 year

% change


over 24 months1, 2

Mount Alexander 649 689 743 967 780 -19.3% DOWNMoyne 432 469 408 488 467 -4.3% STABLENorthern Grampians 683 697 811 936 844 -9.8% DOWNPyrenees 316 347 357 391 359 -8.2% -Queenscliffe 73 102 154 124 126 1.6% -Southern Grampians 882 706 800 988 986 -0.2% STABLESurf Coast 973 972 1,140 1,089 984 -9.6% DOWNSwan Hill 1,437 1,629 1,620 1,735 1,774 2.2% STABLEWarrnambool 1,913 1,988 2,159 2,494 2,663 6.8% STABLEWest Wimmera 121 99 103 109 127 16.5% -Yarriambiack 215 189 315 330 356 7.9% -Sub total 52,651 54,796 58,311 67,424 62,797 -6.9%Other locations in VictoriaUnincorporated Victoria 66 100 94 121 119 -1.7%Justice institutions and immigration facilities 962 598 604 736 1,111 51.0%

Total incidents3 339,767 345,211 369,753 420,219 380,066 -9.6%


1 The trend test serves as a guide to highlight changes that are statistically significant. For more information, please see the Explanatory notes.2 Stable denotes that the 24 month trend was neither significantly increasing nor significantly decreasing.3 Total includes incidents with an unknown geographic location or where the incident occurred in an area outside of Victoria.

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Appendix 4. Recorded offences by offence category – Jan 2013 to Dec 2017


2013 2014 2015 2016 20171 year

% change


over 24 months1, 2

Crimes against the personA10 Homicide and related offences 151 188 190 192 248 29.2% -

A20 Assault and related offences 37,630 37,416 38,879 43,319 43,409 0.2% STABLEA30 Sexual offences 9,884 11,315 11,868 12,906 14,514 12.5% STABLEA40 Abduction and related offences 670 690 735 801 725 -9.5% STABLE

A50 Robbery 2,722 2,424 2,569 3,210 3,275 2.0% STABLEA60 Blackmail and extortion 208 217 209 201 189 -6.0% -A70 Stalking, harassment and threatening behaviour 10,574 11,699 11,944 12,454 11,701 -6.0% DOWN

A80 Dangerous and negligent acts endangering people 3,777 4,297 4,790 5,819 6,020 3.5% STABLE

Sub total 65,616 68,246 71,184 78,902 80,081 1.5%Property and deception offences

B10 Arson 3,696 3,596 3,690 4,161 3,101 -25.5% DOWNB20 Property damage 45,384 42,468 42,934 43,847 41,324 -5.8% DOWNB30 Burglary/Break and enter 45,961 45,547 49,729 54,757 46,311 -15.4% DOWN

B40 Theft144,83

4147,80

2 165,452 191,689 164,432 -14.2% DOWN

B50 Deception 33,986 33,345 36,750 37,074 34,667 -6.5% STABLEB60 Bribery 14 39 11 21 5 -76.2% -

Sub total273,87

5272,79

7 298,566 331,549

289,840 -12.6%

Drug offencesC10 Drug dealing and trafficking 4,228 4,503 5,331 4,999 4,138 -17.2% DOWNC20 Cultivate or manufacture drugs 1,795 1,665 1,771 1,613 1,424 -11.7% DOWN

C30 Drug use and possession 17,392 19,758 23,004 24,581 22,606 -8.0% STABLE

C90 Other drug offences50 34 261 15 30 100.0

% -

Sub total 23,465 25,960 30,367 31,208 28,198 -9.6%Public order and security offencesD10 Weapons and explosives offences 12,380 13,486 15,837 16,022 14,720 -8.1% DOWN

D20 Disorderly and offensive conduct 22,194 20,947 18,023 16,382 16,028 -2.2% STABLE

D30 Public nuisance offences 2,549 2,581 3,028 3,562 3,664 2.9% STABLE



2013 2014 2015 2016 20171 year

% change


over 24 months1, 2

D40 Public security offences 316 85 192 70 134 91.4% -Sub total 37,439 37,099 37,080 36,036 34,546 -4.1%Justice procedures offencesE10 Justice procedures 6,195 6,512 9,152 13,871 12,372 -10.8% DOWNE20 Breaches of orders 29,442 46,878 52,894 58,391 57,273 -1.9% STABLESub total 35,637 53,390 62,046 72,262 69,645 -3.6%Other offences

F10 Regulatory driving offences21 34 24 12 24 100.0

%-

F20 Transport regulation offences 426 501 486 700 622 -11.1% STABLEF30 Other government regulatory offences

983 764 618 596 779 30.7% STABLE

F90 Miscellaneous offences 376 473 469 397 335 -15.6% -Sub total 1,806 1,772 1,597 1,705 1,760 3.2%

Total offences437,83

8459,26

4500,84

0551,66

2504,07

0-8.6%


1 The trend test serves as a guide to highlight changes that are statistically significant. For more information, please see the Explanatory notes.2 Stable denotes that the 24 month trend was neither significantly increasing nor significantly decreasing.

50 Recorded offences by offence category – January 2012 to December 2017

Appendix 5. Recorded offences by region and local government area – Jan 2013 to Dec 2017


2013 2014 2015 2016 20171 year

% change


over 24 months1, 2

North West Metro RegionBanyule 9,513 8,936 9,235 10,090 9,656 -4.3% STABLEBrimbank 19,346 17,371 19,231 19,145 17,149 -10.4% DOWNDarebin 12,267 14,485 15,347 16,854 14,798 -12.2% DOWNHobsons Bay 6,673 7,036 6,901 6,706 6,079 -9.3% DOWNHume 15,379 17,781 20,532 23,650 20,214 -14.5% DOWNMaribyrnong 8,515 8,160 8,691 9,135 8,019 -12.2% DOWNMelbourne 32,503 33,095 34,467 37,928 36,636 -3.4% STABLEMelton 8,963 9,836 11,027 12,082 10,634 -12.0% DOWNMoonee Valley 7,661 8,486 9,631 9,645 8,615 -10.7% STABLEMoreland 12,004 12,689 14,037 14,860 12,727 -14.4% DOWNNillumbik 2,167 2,049 3,033 3,173 2,325 -26.7% DOWNWhittlesea 12,902 13,594 13,736 16,659 15,572 -6.5% DOWNWyndham 12,412 12,985 14,331 15,373 14,132 -8.1% DOWNYarra 11,208 12,856 12,965 14,014 13,293 -5.1% STABLESub total 171,513 179,359 193,164 209,314 189,849 -9.3%Eastern RegionAlpine 494 467 488 387 453 17.1% -Bass Coast 2,492 2,571 2,792 2,949 2,577 -12.6% STABLEBaw Baw 3,170 3,811 3,772 4,144 3,753 -9.4% STABLEBenalla 1,106 1,163 1,150 1,602 1,299 -18.9% STABLEBoroondara 7,006 6,782 7,459 8,392 7,315 -12.8% DOWNEast Gippsland 3,968 3,916 4,193 4,157 3,972 -4.5% STABLEGreater Shepparton 6,417 7,263 7,681 8,396 8,056 -4.0% STABLEIndigo 516 441 518 402 492 22.4% -Knox 9,268 9,543 10,124 12,146 11,289 -7.1% STABLELatrobe 10,232 11,900 13,274 14,482 13,348 -7.8% DOWNManningham 4,095 4,026 4,382 5,015 4,906 -2.2% STABLEMansfield 347 571 414 620 663 6.9% STABLEMaroondah 6,815 7,766 7,782 9,188 8,297 -9.7% STABLEMitchell 2,923 3,289 4,127 4,707 4,402 -6.5% STABLEMoira 1,456 1,423 1,536 1,947 1,926 -1.1% STABLEMonash 8,644 9,144 10,079 12,534 11,117 -11.3% STABLEMurrindindi 694 670 648 715 717 0.3% STABLESouth Gippsland 1,257 1,204 1,345 1,504 1,438 -4.4% STABLEStrathbogie 521 494 506 678 568 -16.2% STABLE



2013 2014 2015 2016 20171 year

% change


over 24 months1, 2

Towong 305 196 194 243 216 -11.1% -Wangaratta 2,409 2,512 2,407 2,592 2,344 -9.6% STABLEWellington 4,103 3,912 4,407 4,749 3,677 -22.6% DOWNWhitehorse 7,099 7,333 8,365 7,992 8,306 3.9% STABLEWodonga 2,757 3,174 3,558 3,312 3,297 -0.5% STABLEYarra Ranges 6,499 7,053 7,908 8,920 8,222 -7.8% DOWNSub total 94,593 100,624 109,109 121,773 112,650 -7.5%Southern Metro RegionBayside 4,302 4,264 4,511 5,396 4,767 -11.7% DOWNCardinia 6,197 5,595 7,323 7,247 5,828 -19.6% DOWNCasey 15,580 17,626 21,033 24,078 21,255 -11.7% DOWNFrankston 14,208 14,909 14,854 16,917 14,278 -15.6% DOWNGlen Eira 5,973 5,352 6,493 7,524 6,818 -9.4% STABLEGreater Dandenong 16,101 15,977 19,518 20,674 18,114 -12.4% DOWNKingston 9,320 9,471 11,033 11,553 10,712 -7.3% STABLEMornington Peninsula 9,391 10,446 11,051 12,010 10,928 -9.0% DOWNPort Phillip 11,175 11,899 12,452 13,634 12,528 -8.1% STABLEStonnington 9,385 9,611 10,106 11,588 9,878 -14.8% DOWNSub total 101,632 105,150 118,374 130,621 115,106 -11.9%Western RegionArarat 1,314 1,052 1,281 1,215 1,289 6.1% STABLEBallarat 9,982 10,221 11,306 12,106 11,594 -4.2% STABLEBuloke 218 216 222 230 199 -13.5% -Campaspe 2,625 2,949 3,071 3,850 3,380 -12.2% STABLECentral Goldfields 1,041 1,098 1,264 1,508 1,455 -3.5% STABLEColac-Otway 1,336 1,538 1,678 1,997 1,742 -12.8% DOWNCorangamite 621 671 681 962 1,030 7.1% STABLEGannawarra 536 546 587 612 568 -7.2% STABLEGlenelg 1,479 1,730 1,585 1,677 1,644 -2.0% STABLEGolden Plains 518 576 672 866 690 -20.3% DOWNGreater Bendigo 8,781 8,644 8,414 10,854 9,724 -10.4% STABLEGreater Geelong 16,639 18,538 20,907 23,001 22,998 0.0% STABLEHepburn 601 619 826 917 887 -3.3% STABLEHindmarsh 241 228 219 370 384 3.8% -Horsham 1,791 2,379 3,043 2,825 2,399 -15.1% STABLELoddon 372 531 424 478 346 -27.6% -Macedon Ranges 1,843 2,171 2,226 2,678 2,463 -8.0% STABLEMildura 5,569 5,940 6,178 6,519 6,495 -0.4% STABLEMoorabool 1,860 1,928 2,178 2,532 2,147 -15.2% DOWNMount Alexander 963 1,041 1,031 1,296 1,152 -11.1% DOWN

52 Recorded offences by region and local government area – January 2012 to December 2017


2013 2014 2015 2016 20171 year

% change


over 24 months1, 2

Moyne 551 645 587 635 624 -1.7% STABLENorthern Grampians 1,974 936 1,150 1,349 1,054 -21.9% DOWNPyrenees 412 452 498 561 530 -5.5% STABLEQueenscliffe 80 126 175 143 133 -7.0% -Southern Grampians 1,137 953 1,150 1,351 1,271 -5.9% STABLESurf Coast 1,184 1,403 1,517 1,347 1,152 -14.5% DOWNSwan Hill 1,752 2,197 2,275 2,225 2,401 7.9% STABLEWarrnambool 2,540 3,003 2,800 3,249 3,488 7.4% STABLEWest Wimmera 146 194 157 187 189 1.1% -Yarriambiack 312 355 459 440 478 8.6% -Sub total 68,418 72,880 78,561 87,980 83,906 -4.6%Other locations in VictoriaUnincorporated Victoria 71 116 119 137 136 -0.7%Justice institutions and immigration facilities 1,253 797 1,074 1,253 1,804 44.0%

Total offences3 437,838 459,264 500,840 551,662 504,070 -8.6%


1 The trend test serves as a guide to highlight changes that are statistically significant. For more information, please see the Explanatory notes.2 Stable denotes that the 24 month trend was neither significantly increasing nor significantly decreasing.3 Total includes offences with an unknown geographic location or where the offence occurred in an area outside of Victoria.



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Crime Statistics Victoria · Web viewIn order to best represent the type of offence associated with a criminal incident involving multiple offences, the most serious offence within