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
Presence
- Highly visible policing – more street than station
- Intelligence informed policing
- Proactive policing activities aimed at harm reduction
- Community engagement with a focus on victims, priority groups and those at risk.
Prevention
- Deterrence, early intervention through partnerships and community safety initiatives
- Disrupting, preventing and detecting crime
- Regulatory services that prevent harm through education, compliance and enforcement activities.
Response
- Responding to emergencies, critical incidents and major events
- Investigating and prosecuting crime
- Victim support and offender management.
Our values
Our values define what we stand for and guide how we behave, how we make decisions and how we interact with each other, with the community and with our partners and stakeholders.
Our values are our contract with the Victorian community and each other on how we will act, behave and respect the role entrusted to us.
Compassion
Respect
Integrity
Professionalism
Courage
Our stakeholders
Policing operates in complex, dynamic environments, responding simultaneously to the needs of communities, victims, offenders, and partners while working closely with the community and a broad range of service recipients to ensure efficient, effective, economical, and timely delivery on objectives and priorities.
Our stakeholders include Victorian Government departments and agencies, peak bodies representing communities and specific community safety issues, partner organisations supporting our work, local communities and their representatives, academia, subject matter experts, and oversight bodies.
Our workforce
Victoria Police employs more than 21,000 people.
Victoria Police continues to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community we serve and provide a workplace where our people are leaders, are safe and supported, are valued, and are included and enabled.
Our workforce is made up of:
Our assets
Victoria Police develops and maintains high-performing assets to support our service delivery.
326
police stations
54
buildings
230
PSO train station pods
3495
motor vehicles
30
aviation assets
32
water vessels
Our service coverage
Victoria Police provides policing services to the community 24 hours a day, seven days a week, working to keep more than 7 million Victorians safe.
Victoria Police operates across 54 police service areas, within 21 divisions and four regions.
Victoria Police service coverage map
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