Police and Emergencies

  • SAFETY PLEA: Drivers risking lives on Colac district roads

    Emergency service workers are pleading with the public to drive safely after four serious crashes and five drivers caught travelling up to 174 kilometres an hour on Colac district roads.

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  • Colac joyride over for teens

    Police have arrested and charged two Colac 14-year-old boys who stole a ute and drove erratically through Colac’s CBD, before flipping it and fleeing the scene of the accident.

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  • Alarming high-speed roadtrip

    Colac district police have charged a Melbourne woman who they caught driving 48 kilometres above the speed limit with an unrestrained child in the backseat.

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  • Stolen ute crashes on Cants Road

    Two male offenders have fled the scene of a crash in Colac after they flipped a stolen ute.

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  • Cumberland River camper theft arrest

    An Avalon man is in custody facing multiple charges over the theft of a campervan at Cumberland River while two people slept inside.

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  • Bin fire damages van at Lorne park

    Detectives are investigating an intentional fire that damaged a van at Lorne this month.

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  • Camper stolen as victims slept inside near Lorne

    A woman was dragged along the Great Ocean Road after the theft of a camper trailer she was sleeping in near Lorne, while a male victim was trapped inside the vehicle.

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  • Police investigating fatal house fire at Apollo Bay

    A man has died in a house fire at Apollo Bay overnight.

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