We developed this plan in consultation with people with disability, community organisations, and the Disability Portfolio Reference Group (DPRG).
We asked people across Victoria to tell us what Victoria Police needs to do to improve our services to people with disability.
These conversations started in early 2024 and over four-months we:
- undertook over forty one-on-one consultations with a range of people
- ran a public survey on the Engage Victoria website, receiving 181 responses
- commissioned a targeted consultation by Amaze, with the autism community, which included a survey and interviews involving a combined total of 64 people.
You can see the full list of organisations that contributed on our Acknowledgements page.
A summary of the Consultation Report is available on the Engage Victoria website.
Four key themes emerged from the consultation activities:
- Education
- Communication
- Accessibility
- Inclusion.
These four themes set the foundation for the development of the goals and actions in this plan.
In conjunction with the DPRG we also undertook a Lessons Learned Review of our previous plan, the Accessibility Action Plan 2021-2023, ensuring we were learning from and building on experience.
We worked with the DPRG when developing this plan including its vision, goals, monitoring and accountability. DPRG members took part in, and in some cases ran their own, consultation activities.
This plan is our blueprint for continuing to become a more inclusive, accessible, and disability confident organisation.
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