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Domestic and Family Violence Strategy 2023-2025
Queensland Police Service
Acknowledgment of country
The Queensland Police Service respectfully
acknowledges First Nations peoples as the
Traditional Owners and Custodians of Queensland.
We recognise their connection to land,
sea and community we pay our respects
to them, their cultures, and to their elders,
past present and emerging.
Our Vision
Victim-centric, trauma informed domestic and family violence responses
Our Purpose
Together we prevent, disrupt, respond to, and investigate domestic
delivered by a capable workforce that protects victim-survivors, reduces
and family violence, prioritising victim-survivor safety, holding
community harm, and builds on Queensland and National priorities.
perpetrators accountable and building our professional capacity.
Strategies Performance Indicators Strategic Objectives
OUR PEOPLE
Continue to build a dedicated, informed,
and capable workforce to e˛ectively
respond to domestic and family violence.
OUR RELATIONSHIPS
Maximise integrated partnerships with
government and non-government agencies,
and academia to achieve our vision.
OUR COMMITMENT
Promote a victim-centric, trauma informed
capability to prevent, disrupt, respond to, and
investigate domestic and family violence.
Enhance our understanding and specialist
capability in managing perpetrators and
ensuring they are held to account.
OUR COMMUNITY
Lead by example to increase community
conÿdence and influence community
attitudes and beliefs around domestic
and family violence.
Drive cultural change regarding DFV responses through leadership and victim-centric, trauma informed practices.
Provide leadership and support to areas undergoing thematic Domestic Violence Commissioner Performance Reviews, and
future Business Unit Reviews.
Develop, implement, and evaluate specialist domestic and family violence training framework that is consistent with
best-practice and evidence informed.
Enhance the state-wide DFV&VP specialist capability.
Promote initiatives to support the wellbeing of our members responding to DFV, in line with QPS’ Our People Matter Strategy
and the QPS Wellbeing Strategy 2021-2024.
Enhance integrated relationships with DFV support services and partner agencies to develop best-practice responses to DFV.
Influence legislative reform to enhance responses to DFV.
Support tailored strategic and evidence-informed prevention and disruption initiatives for diverse people, in collaboration
with partner agencies.
Enhance collaboration and integration with partner agencies, in line with the QPS Engagement Strategy, to deliver e˛ective
responses and achieve positive outcomes for victim survivors and address perpetrator behaviour.
Extend partnerships with universities, sector and other research institutions to drive innovation in developing and evaluating
evidence-based responses to DFV.
Extend and sustain partnerships with National and international law enforcement partners to enhance cross-jurisdictional
response capabilities.
Promote a victim-centric, trauma informed approach when responding to DFV.
Ensure investigating o˝cers conduct thorough holistic investigations to accurately identify the person most in need of protection
and reduce the likelihood of furthering the imbalance of power and control between the parties.
Collaborate with the DFV service sector and partner agencies to deliver an integrated service to protect victim survivors and hold
perpetrators to account.
Expand innovative victim survivor support models across QPS regions.
Promote the referral of DFV victim survivors, including children victim survivors, to appropriate specialist support services.
Increase understanding of intersectional characteristics and vulnerabilities for members of the community who identify as First
Nations peoples, culturally or linguistically diverse (CALD), lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, asexual and
questioning (LGBTIQA+), older people, and people with a disability.
Enhance investigating o˝cer’s knowledge of the impacts of DFV on children, including unborn children, and the importance of
seeking to name children in protection orders (including Police Protection Notice’s).
Continually review and advance our capability to disrupt, investigate and prosecute perpetrators to end DFV.
Advance members skills to identify and gather the requisite level of evidence to support an e˛ective investigation and
prosecution for patterns of coercive control behaviour as opposed to a single incident.
Ensure investigating o˝cers conduct thorough investigations and charge perpetrators where su˝cient admissible evidence
exists to support civil and criminal proceedings.
Continually develop technical capabilities and processes to enhance the identiÿcation of high-risk perpetrators.
Develop research and intelligence to inform prevention, disruption, response to, and investigation of DFV.
Expand insight and foresight of behaviours, tactics and threats employed by DFV perpetrators.
Enhance community conÿdence of the QPS’ role as part of an integrated system response to DFV.
Increase awareness of reporting options and support services.
Utilise e˛ective communication strategies in support of consistent messaging to influence community attitudes
and beliefs, particularly among vulnerable groups.
An increase in QPS members completing victim-centric,
trauma informed training.
An increase in QPS members applying a victim-centric,
trauma informed approach when responding to DFV.
An increase in organisational understanding of, and satisfaction
with, our DFV response.
Promotion of wellbeing initiatives for QPS members responding to
D FV.
An increase in collaboration and integration with DFV support
providers and partner agencies.
An increase in DFV prevention and disruption initiatives
conducted in collaboration with partner agencies.
A decrease in DFV deaths and serious DFV o˛ences.
A decrease in repeat victimisation.
A decrease in the number of police applications for a Domestic
Violence Order (DVO) dismissed.
A reduction in the number of failed DFV-related prosecutions.
An increase in the number of High-Risk Teams (HRT) referrals.
An increase in DFV support service referrals for victim
survivors and perpetrators.
The expansion of innovative victim survivor support models across
QPS regions.
An increase in the detection DFV-related breaches and charges.
Enhanced practices to support victim survivors during the
prosecution process.
An increase in referrals for DFV support services for perpetrators.
An increase in the number of holistic investigations.
A reduction in repeat DFV o˛ending.
An increase in the prosecution of breaches of PPN’s and DVO’s.
An increase in the number of focussed deterrence actions
An increase in community satisfaction with the QPS’ response
to DFV.
An improvement in community understanding of the QPS’ role in
responding to DFV.
A shi° in community attitudes and beliefs towards responding to
DFV.targeting perpetrators.
An increase in reporting of DFV in Queensland through various
reporting options.
Risks
Advance the use of evidence-based policing strategies to
deliver victim-centric, trauma-informed responses to
victim survivors
Remain responsive to increasing frontline and strategic
capability demands
Meet expectations of government and community of
standard of policing responses to DFV
Opportunities
Lead the strategic direction of QPS DFV capability
through a period of signiÿcant reform by remaining
agile to shi°ing pressures and expectations
Champion collaborative approaches to promote outcomes
which are victim-centric, and trauma informed for
vulnerable people
Identify and test innovative responses to DFV to enhance
victim safety and hold perpetrators to account with our
partner agencies
Utilise technology to enhance capability of frontline and
specialist police to identify and respond to prevention and
disruption activities
Queensland Government’s
commitment
QPS will contribute to the implementation and delivery of recommended
reforms and initiatives for the enhancement of DFV responses, in partnership
with the broader service sector and partner agencies and organisations, to
achieve the vision and key outcome of state and national plans including the
Queensland Government’s Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Strategy
2016-2026 for a Queensland free from DFV; and for all Queenslanders to feel
safe in their own homes where children can grow and develop in safe and
secure environments.
Our Human Rights Commitment
QPS is committed to respecting, protecting, and promoting human
rights in our decision-making and actions
Our Values
Integrity: Professionalism: Community: Respect and Fairness:
is in everything we do. We are honest, Times are challenging but if we are professional in We support each other and lend a hand to ensure we We treat each other and our communities
trustworthy and hold each other to everything we do, our communities can respond to the community needs as well as the as we would like to be treated ourselves
a high standard. will continue to support us. needs of our policing community. - with fairness, dignity and respect.
May 2023
