The state's crime rate has dropped, for the fifth quarter in a row, with the latest annual figures showing a 7 per cent decrease in offending in the 12 months to June.

The state government says the latest data shows Victoria is getting safer but the opposition says it will continue to wage its law-and-order campaign right up until election day on November 24.

Victoria Police say they made 175,000 arrests, a record number, during the reporting period as the crime rate dropped to 5922 crimes per 100,000 people.

Crime is at its lowest out of the three full financial years that Labor has been has been in power, and the crime rate is at about the same level now as it was throughout the Brumby-Baillieu-Napthine governments.