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Appeal for information following Lonsdale St robbery
Victoria Police Embona Taskforce detectives are investigating following a robbery in Melbourne in June.
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Calls for summit as spate of assaults has residents concerned
CBD residents have raised the alarm after a recent spate of assaults in the city heightened concerns about community safety.
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Shock after thieves take off with bike wheels
A CBD office worker has told of her shock and frustration after thieves stole the wheels of her bike at the front of her workplace during the sixth lockdown.
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Fears bicycle theft from apartment buildings “increasing rapidly”
Concerns are growing because of bicycle thefts from city apartment buildings and car parks “increasing rapidly”, despite more people working from home.
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“Senseless” graffiti vandals target city
Graffiti vandals have been defacing buildings and empty shop-front windows in the CBD in what a residents’ association has described as “shocking” and “senseless”.
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Man performs sexual act in CBD
Melbourne Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team detectives are appealing for public assistance after a man performed an explicit sexual act towards a woman in the CBD last month.
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Residents fed up with skateboarders
Irate CBD residents are considering packing up and moving elsewhere due to the perceived danger and noise created by unruly skateboarders at Chinatown and Her Majesty’s Theatre.
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Calls to decriminalise begging rejected by police
Calls from legal groups to decriminalise begging have been opposed by Victoria Police, who warned it could not regulate “professional beggars” in the CBD without the law.
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Owners’ corporation changes shut down
A bid to make it easier for owners’ corporations (OCs) to take legal action against corrupt developers has been shut down in the Victorian upper house.
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Armed robbery
Melbourne Embona Robbery Taskforce detectives are appealing for witnesses after a watch worth more than $100,000 was stolen during an armed robbery in Melbourne in February.
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