The shock number of family violence cases police went to in just one week

Grim surge in family violence in one Aussie state

A fire attack and the killing of a pet dog were some of the alleged acts reported to police within one week.

Police attend 160 family violence call-outs in Melbourne's south in one week

Police say a man who threatened to kill his wife with a hammer and tried to set fire to a property was just one of dozens of arrests for family violence in a single week in the Dandenong area.

The shock number of family violence cases police went to in just one week

A man with a hammer, another armed with a gun and one who killed the family pet were among the jobs Dandenong family violence detectives dealt with.

Shocking incidents headline rise in family-violence: police

A week’s snapshot of 161 police call outs in the South East shows family violence continuing to rise, police say. Among the alarming incidents was a man who allegedly strangled and threatened to kill his former partner with a hammer before attempting to set part of his home alight. Another killed a family dog, and another used a gun to threaten and rob his former partner. Over a seven-day period in April, the Dandenong division attended 85 callo…