Community Sentiment Survey 2025
Each year, Victoria Police seeks community feedback on safety concerns through our annual Community Sentiment Survey. Your responses help us to identify the issues that matter most to Victorians.
The annual Community Sentiment Survey is open now.
If you live, work and socialise in Victoria, we want to hear from you about:
- your safety concerns
- how you want to interact with police, and
- where we can focus our efforts to prevent and deter crime.
Your responses will help inform and improve Victoria Police initiatives to keep you and our communities safer.
The survey is anonymous. It will take around five minutes to complete.
We’ll share key findings on the Engage Victoria website and local Eyewatch Facebook pages in October.
Our commitment to community
Neighbourhood Policing ensures local community concerns are central to decision making. It focuses on:
- being more visible and accessible to their local community
- actively listening to their community acting on community safety concerns
- working in partnership with others to address safety concerns.
Understanding local safety concerns
Neighbourhood Policing is about listening to the community and understanding their safety concerns.
We encourage you to share safety concerns with your local police through:
- everyday interactions such as at events
- talking to officers patrolling public areas
- visiting your local police station.
Local police will gather, record, and monitor these issues and concerns.
Working together to address safety concerns
Local police will compile a register of public safety issues that matter most to their local community. They will then be tasked to address these issues, or work with community safety partner organisations when issues are more complex.
We do this by forming a Local Safety Committee in each Police Service Area. This committee is made up of community groups, government, and business stakeholders.
Each committee will develop a Local Safety Plan based on the community concerns. They then deliver prevention-focussed strategies to address the concerns, through both policing and non-policing activity.
Updates to community safety initiatives
Local police implement a number of initiatives to help improve community safety in line with the Neighbourhood Policing Model.
We want to show you we are listening to your safety concerns and taking action to address them.
Local police will provide updates about the various safety issues raised and Neighbourhood Policing activities undertaken through:
- local media
- Eyewatch pages on Facebook.
Each Police Service Area has an Eyewatch page on Facebook where you can:
- keep up to date with Neighbourhood Policing priorities and initiatives
- access local safety and crime prevention information.
Find your local Victoria Police Eyewatch page.
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