DATA NOTES
The data in this chapter are sourced directly from Victoria Police. The counts provided below relate to recorded offences, not offenders. Therefore, multiple offences committed by the same perpetrator are counted as separate recorded offences. Also, offences are recorded against the Local Government Area (LGA) in which they were committed rather than the offender's, or the victim's, place of usual residence. Recorded crime consists of those offences recorded on Victoria Police's Law Enforcement Assistance Program database during the reporting period, regardless of when the offence occurred or when it was reported to police. Figures must be used with caution as not all offences might be reported to the police. These statistics, sourced from Victoria Police, may differ from those presented in other ABS publications, such as Recorded Crime (cat. no. 4510.0) and Recorded Crime - Offenders (cat. no. 4519.0), due to different offence definitions and counting methodology (see Glossary and paragraphs 34-41 of the Explanatory Notes in Recorded Crime cat. no. 4510.0).
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