'It's so petty,' the woman says, but then the phone rings. It's him and he's still angry

A night with police responding to the crisis gripping our suburbs.

"This is your last chance to pull your head in before shit gets serious," he warns.The fear.

Here in Mill Park, in Melbourne's north, family violence accounts for almost two thirds of police workload.It's also a problem that tends to get worse on Sunday evenings. As we head out into the suburbs at the start of the shift, I ask Sergeant David Choueiri why this is the case."The loved ones might have more time together during the day, as well as night.""It doesn't matter what day of the week it is, what time of the week it is.The busiest shift he recalls at Mill Park was 16 family violence callouts.The woman smoking the cigarette on the side of the road has been with her partner for five years.

A year and a half ago, her former partner, who is the father of her young children, took out an intervention order against her current boyfriend."I chose him," she tells Sergeant Jackie Heath, sobbing.

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