Police and Emergencies

  • Ram-raid thief steals firefighting equipment

    Thieves have ram-raided Kawarren’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

    Winchelsea’s former shire hall has been vandalised and boarded up less than a week after closing its doors.

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  • Tourists involved in crash

    Police are warning motorists to be cautious on the Great Ocean Road ahead of wintry conditions this weekend, with another crash involving an international driver near Marengo.

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  • Camperdown man escapes from prison

    Police are searching for a Camperdown man who was among  three men who escaped from Beechworth Correctional Facility in north-east Victoria this week.

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