Those rates compared with an overall national average rise of 3.1 per cent across all crimes, with 13 per cent more burglaries, 12 per cent more robberies and 6.5 per cent more assaults.
Labour police spokesman Stuart Nash said the increases showed the opposite of government claims of falling crime rates.
"These big hikes in violent crime are putting a huge stress on a police force who have been told there will be no staffing increases until 2020," he said, referring to the Police's Four Year Plan.
The documents show no forecast increase in staff at any level, with a slight decrease since the end of the 2015 financial year.
The regional figures were especially unsettling for Nash, whose electorate is Napier in Hawke's Bay.
"The police are being asked to do more with less and that is just not feasible, it does not work. How can you solve crime if you haven't had an increase in the number of police?"
Police Minister Judith Collins said long-term crime rates were down, and the Government was on track to meet its target of 20 per cent less crime by 2018.
"It is correct that there has been an upturn in crime over the short term, particularly around burglary," she said.
"Police remain committed to improving burglary resolution rates and reducing the number of burglaries."
She had "every confidence" that police were addressing the issue.
The Commissioner of Police, Mike Bush, was responsible for the deployment of resources, she said.
"[I] know that both he and his staff are working very hard to address the recent increases in crime, particularly around reducing the number of burglaries."
Collins referred to a police initiative, Operation Focus, that has been extended nationwide to tackle youth committing volume crimes. Police are also developing a new guide for responding to burglaries that will be rolled out next month and change burglaries to a high-priority crime.
The changes came after a Herald series revealed 164 burglaries went unsolved nationwide each day in the year to December 31.
