Reports of Vic drug activity triple

Eight drug labs, 117 grow houses and drugs worth $13 million have been uncovered thanks to tip-offs in Victoria.

Reports of drug activity to Crime Stoppers Victoria rose 215 per cent in the last financial year as Victorians dobbed in their dealers.

A record number of arrests from tip-offs also helped solve a murder, 21 sexual assaults and 28 armed robberies.

More than 63,000 calls to Crime Stoppers in Victoria resulted in 1455 arrests and 4,447 charges being laid.