Australia news live: Albanese delivers major speech to UN; Nine appoints former Foxtel boss as new chair | Australia news

Key events

Benita Kolovos

Victorian police minister says officers working ‘harder than ever before to hold offenders to account’

Police minister, Anthony Carbines, just held a press conference on Victoria’s increased crime rate. He says police conducted a record 77,500 arrests in the 2024/25 financial year – showing they were “working harder than ever before to hold offenders to account.”

Carbines went one:

One victim of crime is one victim too many. There are too many victims at this time. There is a crime level that is unacceptable to Victoria police, to the government, and to me as minister to police.

Anthony Carbines. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

But he says the state’s “tougher” bail laws were starting to show in the figures. He says:

We’ve seen that already coming through these statistics in relation to the growth in remand. Those who’ve lost their bail privileges [is] up 26% for young people, up 46% for adults compared to this time last year. That’s because community safety has been put as somewhat priority from bail decisions, because remand as a last resort has been removed and revoked for young offenders, we will see at the end of this month a new high harm bail test in effect for six serious offences that include aggravated burglary, carjacking, among others.

Share



Source link

spot_imgspot_img

Subscribe

Related articles

spot_imgspot_img