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BREAKINGGlen Osmond, South Australia

Police investigate an unexplained death

SA Police·
Police investigate an unexplained death
Glen Osmond, South Australia · SA Police

The release

Police are investigating the death of an infant at Glen Osmond.

Police need more time to determine the nature and circumstances of the death and are not in a position to provide any further information at this time.

— SA Police
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Crime in the Burnside council area

Burnside is a council area in South Australia with about 48,257 residents. It has a Crime Score 24 out of 100 (low), 314th 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 break-ins (40th percentile), homicide (39th percentile), theft (42nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 28.

Violent
373 per 100k
Property
2,323 per 100k
Break-ins
472 per 100k
Theft
881 per 100k

See the full Burnside crime profile

2016-17: 287 per 100,0002017-18: 336 per 100,0002018-19: 334 per 100,0002019-20: 325 per 100,0002020-21: 246 per 100,0002021-22: 295 per 100,0002022-23: 357 per 100,0002023-24: 313 per 100,0002024-25: 317 per 100,0002025-26: 373 per 100,0002016-172021-222025-26
Recorded violent offences per 100,000 residents in Burnside, 2016-17 to 2025-26 — up 30% over the period. Source: recorded crime published for South Australia.

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