Outcome
The outcome we want is for perpetrators to be consistently held to account through effective prevention, detection and disruption.
Victoria Police will consistently and proactively identify and disrupt perpetrators to ensure the safety of victim survivors and the Victorian community.
We will continue to enhance approaches to resourcing and capability development across all levels of the organisation to ensure our police can effectively manage risk and hold perpetrators to account.
Achieved through
We will achieve this outcome as we:
Enhance risk identification and management of perpetrators
Victoria Police will rely on validated, evidence-based tools to identify perpetrator risk and develop tailored approaches to prevent and disrupt offending.
Initiatives
Enhance targeting of perpetrators of child sexual exploitation
We will continue to keep Victoria’s most vulnerable children and young people safe through a stronger focus on child sexual exploitation (CSE).
We will achieve this through a whole-of-organisation approach to the disruption of CSE perpetrators.
We will increase our intelligence regarding perpetrators through improved record holdings and new pathways for intelligence sharing with our partners. This will put Victoria Police in a stronger position to identify persons of interest who present the greatest risk of CSE and to integrate their management within divisional resource planning and prioritisation. This will enable police across different areas to maximise opportunities to target perpetrators and to ensure that all our interactions with vulnerable children and young people increase our ability to keep them safe.
Improve identification and management of high-risk family violence perpetrators
We will ensure we keep continued focus on the most serious, complex and high-risk family violence perpetrators through enhancing our Case Prioritisation and Response Model.
Using this model to assess the potential for reoffending and escalation of risk, our Family Violence Investigation Units (FVIUs) identify and prioritise the highest risk cases and tailor risk management approaches to prevent serious harm.
Strengthen our approach to stalking cases
We will continue work to improve how we identify and respond to cases of stalking.
Through evaluation of our Stalking Pilot, we will identify learnings and explore opportunities to build the capability of our workforce to detect and disrupt stalking perpetrators.
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