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Season up, up... and underway BLUE and yellow balloons signifying the Carrum Bowling Club’s colours added a touch of gaiety to the opening of the new synthetic rink and 90th birthday celebrations on Saturday. Doing the honours was 15-year veteran – and now life member – Frankston councillor Glenn Aitken who bowled the first ball, and Carrum MP Donna Bauer. See story, Page 8. Picture: Gary Sissons
Kingston crime down Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au CRIME in Kingston has fallen 2.9 per cent over the past 12 months, defying a 3.7 per cent increase for Victoria as a whole. Victoria Police statistics released last week for the 2013-14 year to 30
June reveal robberies, assaults and thefts from vehicles are all down compared to the preceeding 12 months. Kingston local area commander Inspector Bruce Wemyss credited the downturn in crime to “intelligence processes and targeted detection techniques”. Robberies fell 20.9 per cent, to 48 reported offences in 2013-14 com-
pared to 60 in 2012-13 and assaults dropped 5.5 per cent to 891 in 201314, down from 932 in the preceding 12 months. Percentage changes are calculated as a rate per 100,000 people to give a uniform snapshot of crime across all regions. Inspector Wemyss welcomed the crime rate fall but said more work
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could be done to improve community safety further. “The crime position in Kingston is a very good one,” he said. “However, by working together we can make this area even safer and a great place to live and work.” Despite the positive trend in Kingston, Inspector Wemyss noted residential burglaries and theft from cars
had “become more prominent”. “We have allocated specific teams of investigators to target this offending,” he said. A plainclothes undercover team has been established to respond to overnight and early morning crimes in bayside suburbs in a bid to catch burglars and car thieves. Continued Page 8