Police and Emergencies

  • Rural theft and hoons keeping police busy

    Colac district police have recorded an increase in rural burglaries as thieves travel from as far as Melbourne to raid new targets.

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  • School road zones still in force

    School traffic zones remain in force despite most children studying from home this term.

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  • Ram-raid thief steals firefighting equipment

    Thieves have ram-raided Kawarrenโ€™s fire station and stolen emergency responder equipment.

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  • Arrest after car torching

    A Camperdown man is in custody following another weekend evade that ended in a second burnt-out vehicle in the Colac district.

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  • Speeding drug-driver caught hiding in back yard

    A road worker had to jump out of the path of an unlicensed teenage driver on a drug-fuelled joy ride this week.

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  • Visitor drowns fishing

    Police are appealing for witnesses after a fisher was found dead at the bottom of a cliff at Separation Creek.

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  • Sheep die in road crashes

    People escaped uninjured but two sheep are dead after wandering into the path of oncoming traffic at Irrewarra.

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  • Historic $10,000 window smashed at hall

    Winchelseaโ€™s former shire hall has been vandalised and boarded up less than a week after closing its doors.

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