Western Australia is on track for its worst year of domestic violence offences as new data shows restraining orders are being breached every 44 minutes.
Family and domestic violence offences have had the highest jump of the last decade, according to police data.
Over the past five years, it has increased by 56 per cent.
Gosnells Community Legal Centre chief executive Sarah Patterson said she was not surprised, saying it was the same story at legal centres across the state.
”Over the past 12 months we have gone from being duty lawyers at the court one day a week to now having two lawyers at the court five days a week,” she said
