A man is armed with a hammer, strangles his ex-partner, douses his home in petrol and threatens to set it alight. Another robs his former partner at gunpoint while a third slaughters his family dog. These are just three of the 161 cases Victoria Police’s family violence division at Dandenong dealt with in a single week last month. Dandenong family violence police attended 161 incidents in just a week. Getty They arrested 95 perpetrators, recording nearly 300 offences, including 66 assaults, eight rapes, and 14 harassment incidents over the area which spans Greater Dandenong, Cardinia and Casey. The horrifying reality of the statistics is laid bare in how Senior Sergeant Jason Iles describes that week at work. “That’s basically business as usual for us at the moment. It’s unfortunate,” he told The Age .…