Focus for 2014-15: Road safety
During 2014-15, Victoria Police will:
• continue to task frontline resources to further
reduce road trauma
• pilot a ‘Safe Systems’ training initiative to
enhance and embed safe systems thinking
into preventative measures and build
local partnerships
• develop a variable message signage capability
in partnership with the Department of Justice
to enhance the behavioural change effects of
road policing
• continue to implement the STEP program
across Victoria
• introduce a chapter on road policing into
the Victoria Police Intelligence Doctrine
(VPID), which provides direction and
minimum standards for intelligence,
tasking and coordination
• implement the
Safer Country Roads Plan
2014-2018
in a continuing commitment to
reducing rural road trauma.
MOBILE LAW ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM
– ‘BLUENET’
In 2013-14, the Technology Enforcement
Support Unit, Road Policing Command,
introduced an in-car mobile law
enforcement system that provides a
comprehensive multi-application solution
to Victoria Police called BlueNet.
BlueNet integrates in-car video,
automated number plate recognition
and mobile data terminal technologies,
providing an opportunity to equip Victoria
Police operational units with world’s best
practice road traffic enforcement and
emergency management tools.
Cameras mounted on the exterior of the car scan number plates and alert police officers
inside the car to any stolen vehicles/plates, unauthorised drivers and unregistered vehicles.
The in-car video provides increased safety for police officers, as well as audio and visual
corroboration of offences.
Integrating and mobilising this technology gives Victoria Police a greater ability to detect and
remove unauthorised drivers and unregistered vehicles from our roads, thus creating a safer
environment for all road users.
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