Victoria Police Corporate Plan 2024-2025

Message from the Chief Commissioner

I am pleased to present the 2024–25 Victoria Police Corporate Plan (the plan), the second plan under the Keeping You Safe: Victoria Police Strategy 2023–2028 (Keeping You Safe).

This plan outlines significant initiatives that Victoria Police will undertake over the next year.

This plan reflects Victoria Police’s efforts to keep you safe in a way that builds community trust and confidence, while acknowledging that sensible financial management is necessary to deliver the plan.

Every Victoria Police employee can be proud of their efforts to deliver significant progress since the launch of Keeping You Safe in 2023. Our key achievements include:

• we have strengthened our partnerships with local communities, developing effective solutions to their safety concerns through our Neighbourhood Policing Model.
• our VIPER Taskforce has made more than 300 arrests, seized 48 firearms and more than $1.4 million in cash, and removed a substantial amount of illicit drugs off the streets.
• we delivered more than three million preliminary breath tests to deter those driving or riding over the legal limit. We conducted more than 100 Transport Accident Commission funded road safety operations and removed dangerous drivers from Victorian roads.
• we progressed our efforts to transform police engagement with Aboriginal people. My Statement of Commitment published in May 2024 outlined the areas in which Victoria Police is taking action by the end of 2025 to transform our systems and processes to improve criminal justice system outcomes for Aboriginal people.
• through our robust recruitment campaign, we have recruited, trained and deployed an additional 502 police and 50 protective services officers.
• we continued to establish a culture in which all employees are respected and valued, positioning us well to deliver on our commitment to sustainable gender equality by 2030.
• we have supported our partners across government in delivering key reforms, including the health-led response to public drunkenness and the Victorian Government climate change program of work.

We will maintain this momentum in 2024–25.

We recognise that Victorians continue to face complex social, technological, environmental, and economic challenges.

In the year ahead, we will continue to work closely with communities and partner agencies to address community safety concerns.

We must, as always, provide our people with the support they need for their crucial role in achieving a safer Victoria. We will continue to focus on their health, safety, and wellbeing as a priority.

Over the next 12 months, we will strive to deliver exceptional services to the community. I am confident that we can continue to make major achievements throughout the year. I look forward to continuing this important work together.

Shane Patton APM
Chief Commissioner

About this plan

Under the Resource Management Framework published by the Department of Treasury and Finance, Victoria Police publishes a corporate plan every year, covering a rolling four-year period.

This plan aligns with our vision and strategic goals outlined in Keeping You Safe, provides the roadmap for executing the strategy in its second year, and sets out our priorities for the next four years.

The plan forms part of an integrated organisational planning and performance management framework and maintains focus across the organisation.

It is refreshed every year to reflect changes in:

• community safety needs
• organisational priorities, and
• government objectives.