CRIME in Maroondah jumped more than four per cent in the past year, according to the latest police data.

Property and deception offences were up 11 per cent in the 12 months to June, with a 50 percent increase in robberies, from 30 to 45, and a 15.5 per cent increase in thefts, from 2702 to 3122.

The Crime Statistics Agency data showed crime had soared 18 per cent in Bayswater North and 10 per cent in Croydon, but was down in Ringwood and Heathmont.

Across Maroondah, there were also decreases in arsons, assaults, drug dealing and trafficking, sexual offences and public order offences.

Maroondah Acting Inspector Graham Gooding said he had not viewed the figures and declined to comment.

media_camera Bayswater state Liberal MP Heidi Victoria says the Labor Government needs to address causes of crime.

Bayswater state Liberal MP Heidi Victoria said the statistics showed crime was out of control in Maroondah.

“This isn’t a crime wave, this is a crime tsunami,” she said.

Ms Victoria said the Labor Government needed to address the causes of crime, weaker sentencing, bail laws and police numbers.

Police Minister Lisa Neville said improvements in the overall crime figures were testament to the hard work of Victoria Police.

But she acknowledged “there was a lot more work to be done”.

The figures showed overall crime in Victoria had dropped 0.6 per cent in the past year — the first decrease in six years.