THE Mansfield Shire’s crime rate has continued to keep low, with new data from the Crime Statistics Agency showing a drop of 4.7 per cent over the past year ending September 2023.
There were a total of 303 criminal incidents in the year to September 2023 compared to 318 incidents in the year to September 2022, continuing a decreasing trend that started in 2020.
Criminal damage increased from 34 to...