Our role and functions
The role of Victoria Police is to serve the Victorian community and uphold the law to promote a safe, secure, and orderly society.
We achieve this through our functions of:
- protecting life and property
- helping those in need of assistance
- preventing offences
- preserving the peace
- detecting and apprehending offenders.
Our role and functions are set out in the Victoria Police Act 2013.
Our services
Our services include:
- responding to calls for assistance in matters of personal and public safety, emergencies, and serious incidents
- preventing crime through a range of proactive community safety programs
- detecting and investigating offences, and bringing justice to those responsible for committing them
- supporting the judicial process to achieve efficient and effective court case management, supporting victims, providing safe custody for alleged offenders, and ensuring fair and equitable treatment of victims and offenders
- promoting safe road user behaviour.
Our values
Our values underpin our policies, procedures, and practices and how our employees interact with the community and each other.
Our values are:
Respect
Leadership
Professionalism
Support
Integrity
Safety
Flexibility
Visit our values for more information.
Our people
Victoria Police employs more than 22,312 people.
We continue to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community we serve and provide a safe and equal workplace where our people are treated with dignity, respect, and fairness.
Our workforce is made up of:
Breakdown of Victoria Police employees
Victoria Police service coverage
Victoria Police provides policing services to the community 24 hours a day, seven days a week, working to keep more than 6.8 million Victorians safe.
Victoria Police operates across 53 police service areas, within 21 divisions and four regions.
Victoria Police service coverage map
Our assets
Victoria Police develops and maintains high-performing assets to support our service delivery.
Our assets and infrastructure include:
326 police stations
44 buildings
Including:
- 8 multi-disciplinary centres
- 3 forensic facilities and forensic hubs
- 12 storage facilities
- 21 specialist training facilities (inclusive of the Victoria Police Academy).
24 aviation assets
3604 motor vehicles
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