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Our Goals

The department aims to deliver the following outcomes for Victoria:

• community safety and crime reduction
• consumer empowerment and rights protection
• responsible business and citizen conduct
• fair and efficient dispute resolution
• human rights protection
• integrated 'all hazards - all agencies' community-focused emergency management
• modern management and business support

 Our policy framework

Growing Victoria Together (GVT) outlines the government's broad vision for Victoria for the next ten years. This policy framework is supported by other whole of government strategies such as A Fairer And Safer Victoria, the department's Strategic Priorities - a statement of our strategic focus and direction, and key justice policy statements such as the Justice Statement 2004-14.

 Our contribution

The Justice portfolio contributes to the GVT outcomes of:

• building friendly, confident and safe communities
• a fairer society that reduces disadvantage and respects diversity
• more quality jobs and a thriving innovative industries across Victoria
• greater public participation and more accountable government.

 Victorian justice systems

Our portfolio brings together government activities concerned with the reform, administration and enforcement of the law in Victoria. It incorporates five systems, which together make up the Victorian justice systems:  

1. Criminal justice system
2. Regulation and enforcement system
3. Civil justice system
4. Emergency services system
5. Corporate and strategic support system

Further explanation of these systems is contained within Strategic Priorities 2008 document, which is available under Related Publications on the right hand side of this page.