An 84-year-old man was among 75 of the state’s worst family violence offenders arrested in a major police blitz on repeat offenders.

Victorian youth gangs have become the focus of police's tough anti-association orders as authorities attempt to stop criminal conduits connecting violent teens with organised crime thugs.

Police have started hitting youth gang members with tough anti-association orders after they were linked to alarming gun crime levels and stabbings at a rate of almost one a week.

Hundreds of gang members remain under observation after thousands of charges were laid in 2025.