Victoria Police Disability Action Plan 2025–2030: Goals and actions

Objective

Victoria Police strives to be an inclusive, accessible, and disability confident organisation that supports the safety and human rights of people with disability.

Goal one: Victoria Police members are disability confident

DAP 2025-2030 actionInclusive Victoria: state disability plan 2022–2027 systemic reform alignmentA Safe Victoria, Victoria Police strategy alignment
1.1. Work with people with disability to co-design and develop education and training resources for police that improves workforce understanding
of disability. This includes general resources, in addition to content specific to neurodiversity and acquired brain injury.

Co-design with people with disability.

Disability confident and inclusive workforces .

Our Principles: Prevention mindset.

Our Priorities: Enable our people.

1.2. Increase engagement with people with disability to build trust and confidence in their interactions with police.Disability confident and inclusive workforces.Our Priorities: Build trust and confidence.
1.3. Embed accessibility considerations into the Education Design Process to ensure consideration is given to including accessibility in training scenarios. Disability confident and inclusive workforces.

Our Priorities: Enable our people.

1.4. Develop collaboration and information sharing arrangements with relevant safeguarding bodies. This will include frontline capability uplift to support the safety of people with disability using disability services. Disability confident and inclusive workforces.

Our Operating Model: Community first.

Our Priorities: Enable our people.

1.5. Rollout and promotion of the updated Voluntary Disclosure Process.Disability confident and inclusive workforces.

Our Principles: Prevention mindset.

Our Principles: Intelligence informed.

Goal two: Victoria Police services are accessible

DAP 2025-2030 actionInclusive Victoria: state disability plan 2022–2027 systemic reform alignmentA Safe Victoria, Victoria Police strategy alignment
2.1. Work with people with disability to identify accessibility gaps in police services and information.

Accessible communication and universal design.

Co-design with people with disability.

Our Priorities: Build trust and confidence.

Our Priorities: Reduce crime and harm.

2.2. Continue to maintain Police Station Locator tool data to enable accessible public facing information.Accessible communication and universal design.Our Priorities: Build trust and confidence.

Goal three: Victoria Police members are proactive when supporting people with disability and they have the right skills and resources

DAP 2025-2030 actionInclusive Victoria: state disability plan 2022–2027 systemic reform alignmentA Safe Victoria, Victoria Police strategy alignment
3.1. Ensure disability awareness training and education within the Police Foundation Training Program remains current.Disability confident and inclusive workforces.

Our Priorities: Enable our people.

Our Principles: Leadership at every level.

3.2. Promote education and training resources to employees working on public transport networks to increase awareness and knowledge of disability and accessibility supports.

Disability confident and inclusive workforces.

Accessible communication and universal design.

Our Priorities: Enable our people.

Our Principles: Leadership at every level.

3.3. Provide and promote communication resources and supports to all 24-hour police stations to reduce communication barriers between police and people with disability.Disability confident and inclusive workforces.

Our Priorities: Build trust and confidence.

Our Priorities: Enable our people.

3.4. Strengthen the governance of the Disability Liaison Officer (DLO) program to ensure longevity, sustainability, outcomes and increased proactive community engagement activities.

Disability confident and inclusive workforces.

Our Priorities: Build trust and confidence.

Our Priorities: Enable our people.

Our Principles: Leadership at every level.

Our Principles: Victim focus.

3.5. Technical support will be provided on the implementation
of the Disability Action Plan.
Disability confident and inclusive workforces.

Our Priorities: Enable our people.

Our Principles: Intelligence informed.

Goal four: Victoria Police is an inclusive and accessible employer

DAP 2025-2030 actionInclusive Victoria: state disability plan 2022–2027 systemic reform alignmentA Safe Victoria, Victoria Police strategy alignment
4.1. Deliver all actions and commitments in the Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan 2025-2027 (GEDI).

Disability confident and inclusive workforces.

Our Priorities: Enable our people.

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