Police across regional Victoria have launched industrial action on Monday to try and get better pay and conditions from the state government.
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The Police Association Victoria is seeking a four per cent annual pay rise for police and PSOs, and other reforms that better protect the mental health and wellbeing of officers.
The reforms include the introduction of minimum staffing standards, which would see more police in front-line positions across regional Victoria, and the introduction of 10-hour shifts for general duties police.
The current four-year enterprise bargaining agreement expired on November 30. The TPAV has been negotiating with government for the past six months, but they have failed to come to an agreement.
TPAV members voted to take industrial action and accepted 51 measures.
The measures include writing messages on police vehicles, parking police vehicles with lights flashing in the vicinity of fixed and mobile speed cameras, and limiting the compilation of statistics.
None of the 51 industrial action measures adopted will adversely affect public safety, the union said.
"We know that police in regional Victoria are part of the community," TPAV secretary Wayne Gatt said.
"They're from the community, and we hope that just as our police support local communities each and every day, while they're out there fighting for a fair go, we hope we see the community have their backs now when they need it the most."
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