Thank you to the Prior Family Foundation for their generosity in funding a second year of the VPL Prior Family Foundation Scholarship Program, which supports ten frontline Victoria Police supervisors, who this year were chosen by the Victoria Police Employee Networks, which support police members from culturally diverse and different linguistic communities, to participate in Leadership Programs at the Australian Institute of Police Management (AIPM) at Manly, NSW.

It was great to get back to the Victoria Police Academy for our very first graduation of the year last Thursday 18th January. Police Legatee Merrilyn Phillips and her grandson Oliver Phillips were honoured to attend the graduation, hosted by VPL Ambassador and Former Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp AM, and as special guests of VPL Patron and Chief Commissioner Shane Patton APM.

The Midsumma Carnival highlights the opening weekend of the three-week Festival each year. It runs from 11am to 10pm on Sunday 21 January beside the Yarra River in Melbourne's CBD.