Redesign ACT Policing training

All ACT Policing officers receive a 5-day domestic and family violence training program as part of recruit training, incorporating legislation and offences, coercive control and family violence dynamics, lived experience presentations, and response procedures. Select officers receive additional specialist training in evidence-in-chief interviewing of vulnerable witnesses
and victims.

ACT Policing is in the process of designing and implementing a 3-tier domestic and family violence training continuum for recruits, frontline leaders and specialist investigators in line with national police training guidelines.

In June 2024, the ACT Government announced a $375,000 package for coercive control training for frontline agencies. ACT Policing’s portion of this package is enabling the development of academic-designed modules spanning family violence dynamics, victim-centric and trauma-informed responses, and coercive control which will be fully and permanently integrated into the training.