Crime Rate up More Than 50 Per Cent
APRIL 2015 ISSUE 107 PRICELESS WWW.DOCKLANDSNEWS.COM.AU : Docklands_News New Planning Minster talks Point Park outdoor cinema Docklands a success Page 4 Page 7 Community choir project starts this month Comedy festival hits Docklands Page 5 Page 9 Remembering the Anzacs A group of crafty Dockanders has been making poppies in the lead-up to this month’s Anzac centenary commemorations. Th e group has been working away since September, when the Library at the Dock put the call out for volunteers to craft poppies, and so far has made around 600 of them. “Th e project started because there’s a state-wide initiative for communities to come together and create poppies in commemoration of the Anzac centenary,” Melbourne Library Service community heritage team leader Linda Longely explained. Continued on page 4. Clockwise from top: Maree Norris, Pam Shrimpton, Linda Longley, Verna Liddle, Lyn Faull, Barbara Rowe and Janyne Williams. Crime rate up more than 50 per cent While it remains one of the safest suburbs in Melbourne, crime has increased by more than 50 per cent in Docklands, according to crime data released last month. Some 1382 off ences were recorded in Melbourne and Parkville all recorded less While the statistics don’t provide (3924 off ences), breaches of orders (3312 postcode 3008 in 2014, comprising just four off ences than Docklands, but Southbank, breakdowns of the diff erent types of crime off ences) and assault and related off ences per cent of the 32,301 crimes recorded in the North Melbourne, Kensington, Fishermans in Docklands, they do show that the most (2308 off ences).
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