Victoria Police Corporate Plan 2026-2027

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.

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 assets

Victoria Police develops and maintains high-performing assets to support our service delivery.

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.

Issues and opportunities

Victoria Police operates in a dynamic environment. We actively consider factors that may influence our future policies and how we respond, including:

• crime rates and perceptions of safety
• technological advancements and facilitated crime exploiting vulnerable cohorts
• increased child and youth offending
• prolonged cost of living pressures and the impact on crime and family violence
• concurrent emergencies – including extreme weather events requiring a police response and resourcing.

We continue to transform the way we work to:

• ensure police visibility and accessibility in the community
• engage and collaborate with agencies on approaches to crime prevention and early intervention programs
• ensure responsiveness to legislative change and community safety needs.

Our risks

Victoria Police manages risk in accordance with the Victorian Government Risk Management Framework.

Our risk management approach endeavours to improve performance, encourages innovation, and supports achievement of the organisation’s vision, service delivery and community safety performance objectives. It also ensures we comply with our safety, legal, governance, and other corporate obligations.

We operate under the requirements of the Financial Management Act 1994 supported by our values and policies.

Our performance

Victoria Police works to strengthen community safety through policing, law enforcement and crime prevention activities.

We are committed to providing a safe and secure environment for the Victorian community by providing policing services that prevent, disrupt, detect, investigate and prosecute crime, and promote safer road user behaviour, so that Victorians can live their lives confidently, safely and without fear of crime.

We are continually monitoring our organisational performance. We report to government on our accountabilities, including against the Victorian Government Budget Papers and 2026-27 Department Performance Statement, and through a detailed annual report, supported by internal governance mechanisms.

Our finances

Victoria Police has an approved output cost budget of $4.68 billion, provided by the Victorian Government to support the delivery of its 2026-27 operations.

This funding supports the delivery of initiatives designed to enhance community safety and reduce crime and harm across Victoria. Investment in law enforcement, court proceedings and community assistance contributes to strengthened community trust and confidence in Victoria Police and the broader justice system.

Effective financial stewardship requires the ongoing identification and implementation of efficiencies to ensure Victoria Police continues to operate within its approved budget allocation.

Approved State Budget funded output initiatives and asset investment programs, together with associated targets over the forward estimates, are published in the 2026-27 Budget Paper No. 3: Service Delivery and Budget Paper No. 4: State Capital Program.

A Safe Victoria sets the direction and outcomes we want to achieve, to empower our people to deliver effective policing services.

A Safe Victoria came into effect in August 2025 and was launched alongside a new operating model - Community First, and new organisational values. Together these documents will guide us to deliver A Safe Victoria: where everyone is safe and feels safe.

Our priorities

The priorities of Victoria Police are to:

Our principles

A Safe Victoria sets out four principles to guide our approach to how we work and the decisions we make every day.

Leadership at every level

We have trust and confidence in our people as leaders, and enable them to take initiative, make sound decisions, and influence others positively.

Intelligence informed

We use evidence to inform our decisions about where we deploy, how we respond, and our engagement with community, so that resources are used effectively, and efforts are targeted where they can have the greatest impact.

Prevention mindset

We focus on preventing crime and harm and use every interaction as an opportunity to reduce the impact of crime and harm in the community.

Victim focus

We place the experiences of each victim at the centre of our policing response.

Our outcomes

Through the implementation of A Safe Victoria, we will strive to achieve our outcomes of:

We are dedicated to increasing community trust and confidence and reducing serious crime, violent crime and road trauma by enabling our people to deliver excellent services.

Our service delivery model reflects Victoria Police’s aspiration to deliver high quality and modern policing services that result in safer outcomes for all Victorians, and visitors to our state.

This enables us to address the root causes of crime and harm through a prevention mindset and strong partnerships. We will transform our services by trusting our people as leaders, using intelligence to guide our decisions, prioritising the needs and safety of people affected by crime, and using every interaction as an opportunity to reduce harm.

• Collaborate with key stakeholders including Victorian Government departments and agencies to implement and support significant legislation and reform activities.
• Deliver the State Command Coordination Centre to support the Victoria Police Deployment Model.
• Deploy police reservists to perform support functions to return police to the frontline.
• Develop a new Victorian licensing registration system and support the National Firearm Register.
• Engage with key partners to support the delivery of Court functions, including Drug Court programs in regional areas and the online delivery of remand court services.
• Enhance technology to improve the prevention, detection and enforcement of road safety offences.
• Establish a dedicated team to disrupt criminal networks by targeting assets and wealth obtained through criminal means.
• Introduce new rural academies and pilot the Foundation Training Program in Mildura and Gippsland.
• Modernise Victoria Police infrastructure to support critical digital forensics, police custody facilities and police training.
• Provide a targeted response to emerging crime themes such as cyber-crime and cyber-security through the implementation of Victoria Police strategies.
• Refresh operational equipment, upgrade systems and streamline processes to reduce administrative burden and increase frontline capacity.
• Strengthen our media campaign to attract and recruit new police applicants.
• Support high-risk young people through a range of programs and services, and via the recruitment and deployment of dedicated youth crime coordinators.

Victoria Police received additional funding through the 2026-27 Victorian State Budget for initiatives published in the Budget Paper No. 3: Service Delivery.

The initiatives presented below comprise Victoria Police-led initiatives only. The funding amounts presented in the below table exclude depreciation and include internal reprioritisations, consistent with the amounts reported in the Budget Paper No. 3: Service Delivery.

Victoria Police-led initiatives

_{¹ Blue Light Crime Prevention and Early Intervention initiatives have total output funding of $9.4 million allocated to Victoria Police from 2026-27 to 2028-29, comprising $8.952 million over three years sourced from the DJCS Early Intervention Investment Framework contingency and $0.506 million over two years sourced through revenue from schools. This funding will be transferred to DJCS to administer this initiative.}

_{² Critical cybercrime and digital forensic storage and software have total output funding of $4.7 million allocated to Victoria Police from 2026-27 to 2029-30, with ongoing funding of $1.4 million.}

_{³ Freeing up frontline police through use of police reservists has total output funding of $62.0 million allocated to Victoria Police from 2026-27 to 2027-28, with $21.5 million in output revenue in 2026-27 and $29.5 million in 2027-28 to be set aside in contingency.}

_{⁴ Increasing PSO capacity and funding for Operation Pulse has total output funding of $46.6 million allocated to Victoria Police from 2026-27 to 2029-30. This includes the funding for the extension for the deployment of PSOs at the shopping centres.}

_{⁵ Delivering on bail reform for Victoria Police has total output funding of $1.3 million allocated to Victoria Police from 2026-27 to 2029-30.}

_{⁶ Mobile technology for police and evidence recording upgrade provides $14.0 million in output funding to Victoria Police from 2026-27 to 2029-30. The initiative also includes ongoing annual funding of $3.5 million, including $0.3 million sourced through internal reprioritisation.}

_{⁷ Police information technology refresh provides Victoria Police with $15.0 million over four years from 2026-27 to 2029-30, with ongoing funding of $2.5 million.}

_{⁸ Prosecutions at Wyndham Law Courts has total output funding of $6.4 million allocated to Victoria Police from 2026-27 to 2028-29.}

_{⁹ Supporting Victoria Police operations has total output funding of $36.6 million allocated to Victoria Police from 2026-27 to 2029-30. The initiative also includes ongoing annual funding of $5.9 million in new funding and $0.3 million sourced through internal reprioritisation.}

_{¹⁰ Sustaining and enhancing the BlueHub police mental health initiative has total output funding of $1.6 million allocated to Victoria Police in 2027-28 only.}

_{¹¹ Victoria Police licensing and registration management system has $18.3 million in output funding allocated from 2026-27 to 2029-30, with the full funding amount currently set aside in contingency.}

Government approved asset investment programs (new and existing) and targets over the next four financial years as published in Budget Paper No. 4: State Capital Program are presented in the below table.