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Victoria Police mental health review
No full textOverview
The Victoria Police Mental Health Review is an independent review into the mental health and wellbeing of Victoria Police employees.
The 90-page review highlights a need for change in the culture of Victoria Police to eradicate the stigma attached to mental illness and help seeking. It also highlights a need for greater access to mental health literacy and support services for Victoria Police employees during and after their careers, as well as for their families.
The review was led by Clinical and Organisational Psychologist, Dr Peter Cotton, and was supported by Peter Bull (retired superintendent), Nancy Hogan (senior healthcare executive) and Maryanne Lynch (senior research consultant).
Together the review team received over 450 contacts from individuals and groups; including employees of all levels across the organisation and their families, as well as former employees and their families.
From these submissions the review team critically examined how Victoria Police can best deliver wellbeing services to support employees throughout their career and into their post-Victoria Police lives.
Key recommendations include increased education and training around mental health, greater focus on welfare of employees by leaders and enhanced services for members, retired members and their families
Victoria Police Blue Paper: a vision for Victoria Police in 2025
No full textAs public demands for its services grow and change, Victoria Police must adapt. This Blue Paper will guide the development of a new Victoria Police strategic plan for the next ten years, to 2025.
Foreword
Victoria Police constantly strives to meet the needs and expectations of the Victorian community. As public demands for our services grow and change, Victoria Police must consider how it should adapt over the medium to long term.
Although Victoria Police has a three year corporate plan (2012-2015), there is no clearly laid out, long-term strategy. The Rush Inquiry criticised Victoria Police for a fragmented approach to strategic planning, including a failure to set objectives for the short, medium and long term.
That’s why Victoria Police has produced this Blue Paper, as a basis for the development of a new, long-term strategic plan for the period 2015 to 2025.
In particular, it outlines the strategic choices Victoria Police must make - including priorities - in a period when Victoria Police will need to do more to enhance public safety with relatively fewer resources.
The Blue Paper identifies the broader social, economic and environmental trends, and internal challenges, facing Victoria Police now and in the coming years. Many of the internal issues have developed over decades; some have their orgins as far back as the nineteenth century.
It is clear that the current operating model for Victoria Police is struggling to cope with the unprecedented demands upon it and to meet public expectations. Without a real transformation, it will not meet the expected growth and changes in demand for policing.
A Vision for Victoria Police in 2025 sets out three proposed strategic directions to enhance public safety and increase value for money for the Victorian community through its investment in Victoria Police:
better matching of resources to demand by rethinking the traditional operating model
improving capability through workforce reform and technology
collaborating more closely through partnerships.
Sir Robert Peel, the founder of modern policing, said that “the police are the public and the public are the police”. That principle remains of great importance today. Victoria Police and the whole community need to work more closely together to make Victoria a safer place
Policing just outcomes: improving the police response to adults reporting sexual assault
No full textThis report identifies failures in Victoria Police\u27s handling of sexual assault cases, and recommends reforms.
Executive summary
The prevalence of sexual assault and its consequent harm to both individual victims and society as a whole has now been widely researched, documented and recognised in Western jurisdictions for generations. In particular, policing of this gendered5 crime has been the subject of many research endeavours and police organisations have increasingly opened their doors to academics and other researchers in pursuit of evidence-based knowledge that will assist them to enhance their training, investigations and Brief preparations in this respect. Victoria Police has been among the foresighted police organisations in this regard over the past several years.
This report is the result of one major research endeavour concerning reports of sexual assault made by adults and the related police response, investigation and management involving Edith Cowan University in partnership with Victoria Police. This study was designed in terms of three strands, each of which incorporated a number of interrelated research programs. Strand one focused on victims/survivors and it proceeded through the use of an online survey and interviews of adult victims/survivors as well as focus groups and interviews of police officers in the State of Victoria and rape crisis counsellors from Centres Against Sexual Assault located across Victoria. Strand two focused on police decision-making processes and police networking in relation to complaints of sexual assault by adults. It proceeded through close reading of Victoria Police operational case files, individual interviews and focus groups involving police, and a focus group of Office of Public Prosecutions personnel. Strand three focused on the management of the police response and the recruitment, training and development of police for the specialist role of sexual assault policing. It proceeded through the use of strand two methods, as well as observation of Victoria Police training courses, police trainee feedback sheets and online survey, and interview of trainers in relation to the specialist sexual assault policing role.
Authored by S. Caroline Taylor AM, Professor David Bradley, Dr. Shane D Muldoon and Dr. Caroline Norma
Routine activities and proactive police activity: a macro-scale analysis of police searches in London and New York City
No full textThis paper explored how city-level changes in routine activities were associated with changes in frequencies of police searches using six years of police records from the London Metropolitan Police Service and the New York City Police Department. Routine activities were operationalised through selecting events that potentially impacted on (a) the street population, (b) the frequency of crime or (c) the level of police activity. OLS regression results indicated that routine activity variables (e.g. day of the week, periods of high demand for police service) can explain a large proportion of the variance in search frequency throughout the year. A complex set of results emerged, revealing cross-national dissimilarities and the differential impact of certain activities (e.g. public holidays). Importantly, temporal frequencies in searches are not reducible to associations between searches and recorded street crime, nor changes in on-street population. Based on the routine activity approach, a theoretical police-action model is proposed
Landscapes of violence: women surviving family violence in regional and rural Victoria
No full textIn this research, family violence survivors have identified issues and barriers they have encountered, and have provided suggestions in regards to how both the criminal justice system and the broader Victorian community might assist survivors and help prevent family violence.
Overview
This project combines the findings of two studies undertaken by the Centre for Rural and Regional Law and Justice. Drawing on and extending the findings in Women\u27s experience of surviving family violence and accessing the Magistrate\u27s court in Geelong, Victoria (2013), this report extends the research in terms of geographic areas, issues covered and range of participants.
It examines the experiences of, and outcomes for, women survivors of family violence in regional and rural Victoria, considering their contact with, and perceptions of, government agencies (including Victoria Police, the Victorian Magistrate\u27s courts and the Department of Human Services) as well as private and community advocates (legal services, women\u27s services and family violence services) and healthcare professionals.
Through this research, survivors have identified issues and barriers they have encountered in escaping family violence, and have provided suggestions in regards to how both the criminal justice system and the broader Victorian community might assist survivors and help prevent family violence. As well as being informed by survivors, this publication includes insights provided by government and non-government practitioners and organisations who have offered their views on this report\u27s key findings and recommendations. In addition to the generous contributions of these participants, this report utilises relevant data and emerging research in an effort to identify best practice responses to family violence; improve access to justice, support and safety; and protect and promote women\u27s rights and entitlements
walata tyamateetj: a guide to government records about Aboriginal people in Victoria
No full textPreface
A joint guide to government records about Aboriginal people held in Victoria was first published by the National Archives of Australia and Public Record Office Victoria in 1993, during the International Year of the World’s Indigenous People. This guide, called My Heart is Breaking, was subsequently reprinted in 1994 and again in 1997 following Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families.
The records listings originally compiled by Ian MacFarlane and Myrna Deverall have provided the groundwork for this new publication. Demand continues for a guide that assists both the Koorie community and other researchers to access records from Victorian government agencies that relate to Aboriginal people.
walata tyamateetj includes information about Victoria’s Aboriginal records through a comprehensive listing of records, and provides an opportunity to publish a guide to the records in both hard copy and electronic formats. Uniquely for Victoria, the records created by the many Victorian government agencies overseeing the administration of Aboriginal affairs have become part of the collections held by both Public Record Office Victoria and the National Archives of Australia.
The collection was separated due to an administrative change of responsibility for Aboriginal affairs from the State to the Commonwealth in 1975. This guide highlights the wealth of material about Aboriginal Victorians that can be found within government archives, and assists researchers to access these records, regardless of which archive they are currently in. walata tyamateetj is one of many joint initiatives between Public Record Office Victoria and the National Archives of Australia to raise awareness of available resources for Aboriginal Victorians and to improve access to government records about Aboriginal people, families, communities and culture.
Much has been achieved in the years since the first guide to records was published 20 years ago. In 2004 a joint Koorie Reference Officer role was created to work across both organisations. The role is now a focal point for the provision of services to the Aboriginal community and part of a small team known as the Koorie Records Unit, which was established within the corporate structure of Public Record Office Victoria with a view to continuing cooperation with the National Archives of Australia.
The creation of a shared reading room facility at the Victorian Archives Centre has also been emblematic of the broader cooperation between the two organisations. The Victorian Archives Centre in North Melbourne provides a central place to access and research the records listed in this guide. Other collaborations between the National Archives of Australia’s Melbourne office and Public Record Office Victoria to promote and improve accessibility to records relating to Aboriginal people held by government and other organisations include publications, workshops and training, and grants programs targeted at highlighting and raising awareness of the rich collection of Aboriginal resources available in Victoria. The Victorian Koorie Records Taskforce provided leadership for many of these initiatives between 2001 and 2011
VPRS 841 Registers of Inward and Outward Communications
No full textThe Victoria Police (VA 724) has operated since 1853 on a District basis with changes throughout time in the boundaries of the districts with these changes being announced in the Police Gazette. Each District was under the supervision of a Superintendent of Police. Other Branches also had distinct identities such as the Detective Office (from 1881 the Criminal Investigation Branch), the Police Depot and the Paymaster of Police.<br/><br/>This series consists of Registers of Inwards and Outwards Correspondence which became referred to by the Victoria Police as Minute Books. Units 2, 3 and 4 record the movement of correspondence at the Geelong Police District, Units 1, 5 and 6 possibly the Bourke or Melbourne District offices and Unit 6 the Detective Office.<br/><br/>For both inwards and outwards correspondence the number, date, the name of the writer or recipient, reference to previous official documents and a summary of the subject of the correspondence are given.<br/><br/>VPRS 841/P was reserialised in 2001 as part of the ARAD Project. The former unit 7 is now serialised as VPRS 12690/P1 unit 1
Managing conflict of interest in Victoria Police
No full textDeficiencies in the recognition and management of conflict of interest in Victoria Police are identified in this OPI report.
This report uses case studies to assist police and the community to better understand how and when conflict of interest occurs for police and why it is important they manage it properly. In order to protect the identities of the individuals involved, certain non-critical details about each case have been altered
VPRS 1503 Court Records and Police Magistrates' Note Books
No full textThis series contains a variety of court registers and Police Magistrate 's note books including a Police Court Deposition Book, parts of a Court of Petty Sessions judgement register and several Police Magistrate note books.<br/><br/><br/>
VPRS 4965 Kelly Historical Collection - Part 1 Police Branch
No full textThis series contains police correspondence, reports and statements in relation to the search for the Kelly gang, directives, documents relating to the trial of Ned Kelly and proceedings against various members of the Kelly family and papers relating to other events which occurred after Ned Kelly's execution.<br/><br/>Research undertaken on these records by PROV during the 2010s has concluded that the contents of this series consists of the "file" maintained by Victoria Police in Melbourne as papers were received and "put away". The "file" most likely existed in the the form of a number of tied bundles, the papers within each arranged in chronological order according to the date items were "put away" (that is, filed) and not according to the date in which the items were either written by their creators or received by Victoria Police.<br/><br/>Accordingly, the file (i.e the bundles) was maintained by Victoria Police as part of the same record keeping system as the bundles that make up VPRS 937 Inward Registered Correspondence. The bundles would have been referred to as the "Kelly file" containing what were considered to be the significant documents relating to the matter. This is in keeping with a range of other single subject files completely unrelated to Kelly that can be found within units 510 - 515 of the P0 consignment of VPRS 937.<br/><br/>Individual items that were filed could take the form of either a single letter, report, memo, telegram, etc, or of a file containing similar items received on aspects of the subject matter that had been bound together by ribbon. The reverse of many papers on the file will be annotated with registration details, comments and instructions reflecting the movement of the paper/file throughout Victoria Police
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