Police and Emergencies

  • New program for learner drivers

    A NEW mentoring program for Colac and district learner drivers will help disadvantaged youths gain experience behind the wheel.

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  • Teenager airlifted to hospital

    PARAMEDICS airlifted a Simpson teenager to a Melbourne hospital after a single-vehicle car crash.

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  • ‘Bright, bubbly, beautiful’ girl killed

    COLAC has lost “bright, bubbly and beautiful” Chloe Holmes, 21, who died in a car crash south-west of Colac.

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  • More arrests after drug raids

    POLICE have arrested a Cororooke man and two Camperdown men after fresh raids across the Colac district targeting drug dealers.

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  • Seven arrested after drugs raids

    POLICE have arrested seven people from Colac and Camperdown after a series of raids which netted drugs including oxycontin, speed and cannabis.

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  • Tree lopper hurt in fall

    A TREE lopper working in the Otways has suffered suspected spinal injuries after falling up to seven metres onto a log yesterday.

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  • Crime down but police still worried

    COLAC and district crime rates have fallen in the past 12 months but assaults, family violence and drug offences remain a concern for authorities.

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  • Heartless theft from disabled woman

    HEARTLESS thieves have trashed the home of a physically disabled Colac woman and her husband and stolen belongings and medication in a daylight burglary.

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