Victoria's crime rate has risen with drugs, family violence and deceptions among the causes. Source: AAP
TAP-AND-GO technology is helping make credit card fraud the fastest growing area of crime in Victoria.
Drugs and family violence also contributed to an overall 1.2 per cent jump in the crime rate for the 12 months to December 2013.
Deception offences rose by 42 per cent and drug offences jumped by 12.3 per cent.
The introduction of tap-and-go credit cards has made deception easier and police have again expressed concern about the technology, which allow customers to make purchases without a PIN or signature, and say negotiations continue with the banks about a solution.
The 42 per cent figure is up about 12 per cent on quarterly figures released last November.
"It is not a policing issue, it is a whole of community issue and everybody should be working together to try and address these issues and to make it very, very difficult for people to commit offences," Deputy Commissioner Lucinda Nolan said.
A Mastercard spokeswoman said the company is surprised police are concerned about tap-and-go technology since industry data reveals there's been no increase in fraud specifically relating to such cards.
"We have asked Victoria Police to clarify the source and nature of their crime statistics," she said.
Family violence is also up with a big jump in the number of intervention order breaches which have caused the category of other crimes to rise by 15.5 per cent.
Ms Nolan said breaches of intervention orders had significantly increased, but that did not mean they were not working, just that police were stronger in enforcement.
"So that when there are breaches, whether they are minor or major police are taking action," she told reporters on Wednesday.
Chief Commissioner Ken Lay said 40 per cent of crimes committed against a person occurred in the home.
"This underlines the impact of family violence," he said.
There were 12,607 more offences overall committed in Victoria over the year, a rise of 3.1 per cent.
Ms Nolan said methamphetamines are challenging cannabis for the drug related to the most offences, with ice continuing to have a very bad impact on the community.
"You see the impact it has, particularly on the regional centres and rural communities, it is absolutely huge, how it has impacted on those families and those local communities," she said.
But there was some good news for police, with robberies down by 15.4 per cent and property crimes decreasing by 2.6 per cent.
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