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New Police Management – From Command and Control to Collaborative Governance: An Assessment of Organisational Change at Victoria Police

This project is being funded by a grant by the Australian Research Council (ARC), Australia's premier funding body for academic research.

It is being undertaken in partnership with the Victoria Police. The invesigators are Professor Julie Wolfram Cox, School of Management and Marketing, and Professor Owen Hughes, Monash University.

Summary

Changes in governance will be assessed and refined in order to assist Victoria Police to become more proactive and collaborative in achieving its strategic aims of intelligent, confident, community and partnership policing and thereby to make a difference to community safety over the next five years. Proactive collaboration at all levels will help Victoria Police to protect communities from terrorism and crime in contemporary conditions and will assist in the safeguarding of Australia.

More generally, the results of the project will assist the accumulation of research based evidence to inform policy making based on the claimed benefits of decentralisation in police forces around the world.