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Chief Commissioner active in CBD arrest
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush took a hands-on role in a CBD arrest on Wednesday, July 15, police said, when he happened to be driving by a man carrying a chisel who was being chased by officers.
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Twenty-year-old criminal “tasker” arrested over firebombings
Police have made what they are describing as “the most consequential arrest” so far in relation to the recent spate of firebombings of hospitality venues around Melbourne.
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Three arrested as police claim breakthrough in CBD nightclub arson spree
Victoria Police says it has now arrested someone in relation to every alleged Operation Eclipse arson offence in Melbourne’s CBD, following the arrest of three more people over a series of nightclub fires and attempted fires earlier this month.
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Second ACDC Lane arson attack
Three teenage boys were charged and remanded in custody after an arson attack on an ACDC Lane bar on Anzac Day weekend.
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Moomba weapons arrest
Police believe they likely prevented serious violence when they arrested several armed males near St Kilda Rd on the first night of the Moomba Festival, they said.
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Police briefs Melbourne CBD - March 2026
Victoria Police are appealing for assistance to help locate a man wanted over a raft of offences.
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Police briefs Melbourne CBD - January 2026
Victoria Police estimated 17,000 people attended Melbourne’s ‘Invasion Day’ rally on January 26 while 2000 turned out for an anti-immigration ‘March for Australia’, which reportedly had links to right wing groups.
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Continued public appeal after police assaulted at Melbourne protest
Detectives from the North West Metro Regional Crime Squad have released images and footage of seven people they are seeking to identify after police were allegedly assaulted at a protest in Melbourne’s CBD last month.
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Crime surge hits Melbourne: thefts from cars and retail stores drive state-wide increase
Victoria has recorded its sharpest rise in crime in more than a decade, with thefts from vehicles and retail stores among the offences surging most strongly, according to new data from the state’s Crime Statistics Agency (CSA).
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The realities of community health amid a city petty crime “epidemic”
Every day, Cohealth’s outreach team supports the city’s most vulnerable. They walk Melbourne’s streets and laneways to check on the welfare of people sleeping rough.
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Beware of conning ‘monks’
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