Road Safety Strategy: Our role

All frontline police play a crucial role in enforcing our road safety laws. Their primary road policing function is prevention through highly visible vehicle intercepts and conducting preliminary breath tests on all intercepted road users and enforcement where appropriate.

This simple and effective approach ensures a proactive and identifiable presence on the roads to deter and prevent offending.

As part of our dedication to preventing road trauma and in line with our organisational commitment to exceptional service, we will deliver a range of projects to enhance the efficiency of our members in the field and ensure they have access to state-of-the-art equipment and intelligence to enforce non-compliance with Victoria’s road safety laws.

Initiatives to be delivered under the Victoria Police Road Safety Strategy 2024–2028 include:

• Additional breath testing devices with improved capability to enable automated data capture and better service anytime, anywhere road policing enforcement.
• Introduction of electronic penalty infringement notices (ePINs) and exploration of roadside automation to streamline processes in the field to reduce safety risks at the roadside.
• Review and replacement of critical road safety assets that detect unregistered and unlicensed drivers on Victorian roads.
• Supporting an uplift in regional road policing capability through additional access to specialist training, road safety program initiatives and enhanced equipment.
• Expansion and enhancement of measures reported on the Organisational Performance Hub Dashboard to better track key road safety enforcement activities against areas of high trauma.

In addition to these initiatives, the strategy will be supported by the implementation of road safety action plans tailored to regions and specialist areas, to ensure our people understand which policing activities best contribute to both general and specific deterrence of non-compliance on our roads.

We will work with our road safety partners and the community to ensure enhanced approaches to road safety are evidence-led, adaptable to emerging harm and aligned with shared strategic priorities.

This partnership approach is critical to reducing harm and achieving our shared vision of a road system where fatalities are reduced by 50 per cent by 2030, and no one loses their life on Victorian roads by 2050.⁷

^{7 Target within Victorian Road Safety Strategy 2021–2030.}