Over the past 24 months, the offending rate for all 17 of the major offences has remained stable in the Shoalhaven, with fraud the only offence to have increased significantly over the last five years.
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Data from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research shows fraud offences increased by 6.4 per cent, with 485 cases recorded from January to December 2019.
But, both break and enter to dwellings and malicious damage to property saw measurable decreases over the last five years.
Break and enter into homes has decreased year on year since 2015, by 12.6 per cent in total. With 334 incidents recorded in 2019, down from 573 in 2015.
Malicious damage to property saw a smaller decrease of 6.4 per cent.
The category of 'other offences' has risen by 54 per cent in the last 24 months, from 176 offences in 2018 to 271 in 2019.
It was the only offence category which saw a major rise in offending in past two years.
Offences in the 'other' category include animal cruelty offences, electronic spying or unauthorised data, service denial, crimes under the Bush Fire Act, making false triple zero calls and various marine laws.
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In the past 24 months across NSW, domestic violence related assault was up 5 per cent, and steal from retail store up 8 per cent. The only major offence trending down was steal from person down 7 per cent while the other major offences remained stable.
In explaining the state-wide increase in DV assaults, acting executive director of BOCSAR Jackie Fitzgerald said it was unclear whether the significant increase was due to an increase in reporting or an increase in offending.
"Since 2017 we have seen more pro-active policing of domestic violence which could have encouraged victims to report," Ms Fitzgerald said.
"We also know that domestic assaults occasioning grievous bodily harm are much more reliably reported than less serious forms of assault and these have remained stable over the past two years."