Preventing bushfires through community reporting to Crime Stoppers: 2017 survey

This report to Crime Stoppers Victoria (CSV) gives results for the 2017 community survey and reports on trends across three surveys, 2012, 2015 and 2017. The aim of the research is to provide information for CSV in order to raise the level of reporting of suspicious behaviour in relation to illegal fires witnessed in regional areas of Victoria: Latrobe, Murrindindi, Nillumbik, Macedon, Yarra Ranges, Surf Coast, being areas of high bushfire risk, and Knox as a control region with a more urban status where bushfires are less likely to occur