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MEDIA ADVISORY: Investigations continue following Canterbury stabbing and Five Dock assault

NSW Police·
MEDIA ADVISORY: Investigations continue following Canterbury stabbing and Five Dock assault
Five Dock, New South Wales · NSW Police

The release

Police will address the media today as investigations continue into a stabbing in Canterbury and an alleged assault in Five Dock overnight.

— NSW Police
This report is from NSW Police. Read their full release: police.nsw.gov.au/news/news_article?sq_content_src=%2BdXJs…

Crime in the Canada Bay council area

Canada Bay is a council area in New South Wales with about 93,006 residents. It has a Crime Score 22 out of 100 (low), 327th of 362 councils nationally.

The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by homicide (54th percentile), robbery (32nd percentile), sexual offences (21st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 19.

Violent
572 per 100k
Property
1,855 per 100k
Break-ins
237 per 100k
Theft
886 per 100k

See the full Canada Bay crime profile

2016-17: 333 per 100,0002017-18: 319 per 100,0002018-19: 357 per 100,0002019-20: 381 per 100,0002020-21: 392 per 100,0002021-22: 404 per 100,0002022-23: 442 per 100,0002023-24: 508 per 100,0002024-25: 486 per 100,0002025-26: 572 per 100,0002016-172021-222025-26
Recorded violent offences per 100,000 residents in Canada Bay, 2016-17 to 2025-26 — up 72% over the period. Source: recorded crime published for New South Wales.

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