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Engine trouble delays departure THE vehicle carrier Hoegh Jeddah was again on the move mid-afternoon last Thursday after being anchored in the main shipping channel south of Rosebud since about 7am. It is understood the pilot called a halt to the ship’s departure from Melbourne because of engine trouble. Peter Harry from the Port of Melbourne Corporation said the shup had been anchored on the south side of the channel so as not to impede traffic. He said there had been no danger of it being grounded. By mid-afternoon the Hoegh Jeddah was undergoing sea trials, accompanied by the tug Hastings, before being given the go ahead to leave Port Phillip. The 58,000 tonne Norwegian-flagged ship was built in 2014. The 200 metre long ship is one of several similar looking vessels regularly seen in Port Phillip. In January, the Hoegh Osaka, one of the Hoegh Jeddah’s sister ships, was deliberately run aground in the Solent off the Isle of Wight after leaving the British port of Southampton. The ship’s owners, Hoegh Autoliners, said the decision to ground the ship on a sandbank was made after it developed a list. Chief executive Ingar Skiaker was quoted by the BBC at the time as saying there had been no leakage of oil or fuel and that the master and pilot had “executed their duties based on their best judgement and we're not secondguessing their actions right now�. Mr Skiaker said the ship, built in 2000, was carrying 14000 cars (including Bentleys and Rolls Royces) had been “only one third full�. Keith Platt
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Crime up across peninsula Neil Walker neil@mpnews.com.au CRIME across the Mornington Peninsula has risen 3.7 per cent and is likely to keep rising in the short term but police say this is a positive trend. Figures for the 12 months to June this year released by the newly formed Crime Statistics Agency reveal overall crime on the peninsula has risen from 10,164 in 2013-14 to 10,543 in 201415, fuelled by a jump in intervention order breaches and stalking offences.
Mornington Peninsula police acting inspector Dean Clinton said many of the intervention orders relate to family violence and people are more likely to report such incidents thanks to an increased awareness of what constitutes family violence and a push to focus police resources on tackling domestic violence. “We have now got two dedicated family violence teams who are out and about tackling these more serious and recidivist family violence offenders,� he said. Breaches of orders surged to 1331 in
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2014-15, up from 931 in 2013-14. Acting inspector Clinton said police are helping victims take action to protect themselves from violence. “A lot of those orders are family violence based. We have a high number of family violence incidents reported ‌ and that’s because we’re raising awareness of family violence and what constitutes family violence for people to report.â€? While intervention breaches were up, crimes against the person including assaults and sexual assaults dropped slightly from 1079 to 1045.
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Drug offences rose from 419 in 2013-14 to 587 in 2014-15 led by a 147 increase in drug use and possession offences. Drug dealing and trafficking offences remained consistent at 114 for each 12-month period. The latest crime figures, released this month, are the first full year’s statistics to be compiled by the independent Crimes Statistics Agency set up by the previous Coalition state government amid claims from politicians that previous data had been massaged for political purposes. Continued Page 5
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