6. Spotlight: Arson offences 6.1 Introduction and scope In the year ending 30 September 2016, Victoria Police recorded 4,480 arson offences across the state, an offence rate of 74.0 offences per 100,000 people in Victoria. In five years the number of arson offences has increased by 33.6 per cent, up from 3,354 offences in the year ending 30 September 2012. In the last five years the cost of damage due to arson offences exceeded $119 million, as recorded by Victoria Police members, with more than $19 million of this recorded in the last 12 months. Data for this spotlight has been extracted from the Victoria Police Law Enforcement Assistance Program on 18 October 2016 and reflects criminal offences and alleged offender incidents based on crime recorded by Victoria Police. The data covers a five year period from October 2011 to September 2016. Arson offences are defined as any offence recorded in LEAP that has been coded to the CSA offence classification category Arson”, and includes the following offence groups: “B10 B11 Cause damage by fire B12 a bushfire B19 Other fire related offences 6.2 Prevalence of arson offences Oct Sept Oct Sept Oct Sept % change – – – 2014 2015 2016 2015 - 2016 3,544 3,396 4,480 31.9% Number of offences 60.7 57.2 74.0 29.4% Offence rate per 100,000 population Alleged offender incidents 1,065 1,068 1,397 30.8% Offender incident rate per 100,000 18.2 18.0 23.1 28.3% population In the year ending 30 September 2016, were 4,480 arson offences recorded. Cause damage by fire comprised 76.3 per cent of all arson offences, with Other fire related offences and Cause a bushfire offences making up 18.7 and 5.1 per cent respectively. While Cause a bushfire offences only made up 5.1 per cent of all arson offences in the last 12 months, the number of these offences more than doubled compared to the same time last year, up 129.3 per cent from 99 to 227. There were 1,397 alleged offender incidents with a principal offence of arson, an increase of 30.8 per cent (n=329). The offender incident rate per 100,000 people is 23.1, a 28.3 per cent increase compared to the same period last year.
6. Spotlight: Arson offences 6.1 Introduction and scope In the year ending 30 September 2016, Victoria Police recorded 4,480 arson offences across the state, an offence rate of 74.0 offences per 100,000 people in Victoria. In five years the number of arson offences has increased by 33.6 per cent, up from 3,354 offences in the year ending 30 September 2012. In the last five years the cost of damage due to arson offences exceeded $119 million, as recorded by Victoria Police members, with more than $19 million of this recorded in the last 12 months. Data for this spotlight has been extracted from the Victoria Police Law Enforcement Assistance Program on 18 October 2016 and reflects criminal offences and alleged offender incidents based on crime recorded by Victoria Police. The data covers a five year period from October 2011 to September 2016. Arson offences are defined as any offence recorded in LEAP that has been coded to the CSA offence classification category “B10 Arson”, and includes the following offence groups: B11 Cause damage by fire B12 a bushfire B19 Other fire related offences 6.2 Prevalence of arson offences Oct – Sept 2014 Oct – Sept 2015 Oct – Sept 2016 % change 2015 - 2016 Number of offences 3,544 3,396 4,480 31.9% Offence rate per 100,000 population 60.7 57.2 74.0 29.4% Alleged offender incidents 1,065 1,068 1,397 30.8% Offender incident rate per 100,000 population 18.2 18.0 23.1 28.3% In the year ending 30 September 2016, were 4,480 arson offences recorded. Cause damage by fire comprised 76.3 per cent of all arson offences, with Other fire related offences and Cause a bushfire offences making up 18.7 and 5.1 per cent respectively. While Cause a bushfire offences only made up 5.1 per cent of all arson offences in the last 12 months, the number of these offences more than doubled compared to the same time last year, up 129.3 per cent from 99 to 227. There were 1,397 alleged offender incidents with a principal offence of arson, an increase of 30.8 per cent (n=329). The offender incident rate per 100,000 people is 23.1, a 28.3 per cent increase compared to the same period last year.
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