Police and Emergencies

  • olac police stopped 900 vehicles on the Princes Highway, Colac West, on Wednesday as part of a state-wide crackdown.

    Police nab 100 drivers

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    COLAC and district police have nabbed up to 100 motorists for safety and traffic offences in a bid to make the region’s roads safer.

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  • Colac District Football League interleague coach Tim Pekin addresses his team at training ahead of tomorrow’s clash against the Warrnambool district league.

    Players ready for interleague clash

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    SIX months of work will come to fruition this weekend when Colac district footballers play interleague for the first time in more than a decade.

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  • Tourists’ car catches fire

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    TWO tourists missed seeing the sun rise over the Twelve Apostles after their car caught fire at Winchelsea.

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  • Carpark crash cleans up four cars

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    An elderly Colac woman was uninjured when she lost control of her car in a city carpark, damaging four other vehicles.

    AN elderly Colac woman was uninjured when she lost control of her car in a city carpark, damaging four other vehicles.

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  • Police hunt daylight burglars

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    Thieves attempted to break into Colac Motorcycles during a daylight burglary at the weekend.

    POLICE are hunting two men who tried to break into a Colac motorcycle shop in an attempted daylight burglary yesterday.

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  • Farm shop thieves strike again

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    Thieves cut through a fence, moved a water tank and smashed Colac Landmark's front door before stealing $10,000 worth of cattle drench.

    THIEVES have stolen $10,000 worth of cattle drench in a third burglary on a Colac West rural business this month.

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  • Police ready for festival crowd

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    Police are ready for thousands of people attending the Apollo Bay Music Festival this weekend.

    APOLLO Bay police say they are prepared for thousands of people to converge on the coastal town for its annual music festival this weekend.

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  • Masked, armed men invade home and terrorise family

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    Police believe offenders carried a machete and baseball bats when they invaded a Colac district home.

    POLICE are hunting masked bandits who terrorised a Colac district family with baseball bats and a machete in a brazen aggravated burglary.

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  • Filthy Facebook abuse site backfires on creator

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    When challenged to make defamatory posts about Colac's "dogs" and "scum", Facebook users instead posted pictures of their pet dogs.

    POLICE are investigating a social networking page defaming, taunting, abusing and alleging criminal activity against Colac and district residents.

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  • Colac surveillance cameras progress

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    Colac company Stevcom has won a tender to install $300,000 worth of surveillance equipment in central Colac. Pictured from left are Mayor Lyn Russell, Stevcom’s Maree Hall, Polwarth MP Terry Mulder and Stevcom’s Corey Beckett.

    A COLAC company has won a tender to install a $300,000 security camera system in the city.

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