This was about three times the state’s total increase of 5.6 per cent.
In 2022, there were 2413 criminal incidents in the Local Government Area and this rose to 2802 by March 31 this year.
Campaspe was ranked 13th highest in the total number of criminal incidents per 100,000 residents in all local government areas.
The last time the Campaspe Shire reached these numbers were during pre-pandemic period in 2019 when there were 2797 total criminal incidents in the report released in 2020.
The types of incidents committed were fairly evenly spread with criminal damage the highest at 12 per cent.
Second was the breaching of family violence orders at 9 per cent and third was other theft at 8 per cent.
The breaching of family violence orders was the only type of criminal incident in the top five that decreased over the past 12 months from 271 to 259.
Contrary to local numbers, this same type of criminal incident increased statewide by 2.5 per cent.
Sixty per cent of the total criminal incidents occurred in Echuca with a further 15 per cent occurring in Kyabram.
While the number of criminal incidents taking place on streets, lanes or footpaths decreased from 536 in 2021 to 453 in 2022, the number of incidents that occurred in houses ranked first and increased by 9 per cent.
In raw numbers this means an increase from 677 to 739.
A total of 51.8 per cent of all criminal incidents in the LGA went unsolved in the previous 12 month period. In about a third there were charges laid.
Crime Statistics Agency’s chief statistician Fiona Dowsley said that “the upward trends observed in recorded crime measures in the last 12 months coincide with a return to pre-pandemic-related movements in the community’’.