Outcome
The outcome we want is for all police to have the capacity and capability to effectively respond to family violence, sexual offences and child abuse.
Enabled by strong leadership with a commitment to continuous improvement, we will consistently utilise the levers that support our police to effectively and efficiently provide a high-quality response to victim survivors of these crimes.
Achieved through
We will achieve this outcome as we:
Enhance organisational capability to effectively police family violence, sexual offences and child abuse
We will grow our skills and capability across all levels of the organisation through our strategic workforce planning. This includes visible and responsive policing of employee-related family violence.
We will continue our efforts towards achieving gender equality and increasing diversity within our organisation so our workforce meets community needs and maintains community trust.
Identify and prioritise opportunities for increased efficiency in operational responses
Victoria Police systems and processes for responding to family violence, sexual offences and child abuse will be streamlined and modernised to maximise the quality of our service to victim survivors.
Initiatives
Flagship initiatives under this domain:
Build our capability to provide trauma-aware responses
We will establish a program of work to enable our police to better understand, recognise and respond to trauma in our service to the Victorian community.
Building on 15 years of victim-centric practice through our SOCITs, we will focus on building and equipping other parts of our workforce.
We will support our police so our interactions with the community minimise trauma and re-victimisation.
Streamlining our procedures and processes to improve efficiencies
Building on and complementing our Staff Allocation Model (SAM), we will undertake a comprehensive review of our workforce in FVIUs, SOCITs and targeted family violence support roles, to ensure we effectively direct our resources.
With increased efficiency and consistency, we will strengthen our organisational capacity to respond to family violence, sexual offences and child abuse.
Enhance responses to employee-related family violence
In 2021, Victoria Police released the first policy of its kind in Australia aimed at providing our organisation with extensive guidance to respond to and manage family violence involving police employees.
We will build on this foundation, implementing improvements to ensure perpetrators are held to account and victim survivors are supported.
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