The Security and Intelligence Division (SID) delivers specialised security, intelligence and emergency management services to Corrections Victoria and the broader Department of Justice and Community Safety.
Security and Emergency Services Group
The Security and Emergency Services Group (SESG) provides a tactical security and emergency incident response to the adult correctional system. The SESG provides both immediate and longer-term support through its diverse supplementary portfolios such as:
- K9 Services, which assist prisons with barrier control and searching operations
- high-security escorts
- high-risk incident response
- emergency management training and responding
- mandatory state-wide training
- Emergency Response and Statewide Training Group.
Emergency Management Unit
The Emergency Management Unit (EMU) sits within the SESG and is responsible for leading the development of emergency management capability across the correctional system – including state and private prisons, transition centres, post-sentence facilities and youth justice facilities. This ensures the correctional system is better able to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies.
The EMU achieves this by:
- assisting emergency management portfolio holders with planning, facilitating, and evaluating emergency management exercises
- delivering management system for emergencies and field commander training.
Corrections Victoria Intelligence Unit
Corrections Victoria Intelligence Service (CVIS) is the overarching intelligence service for Corrections Victoria and its stakeholders. The CVIS is comprised of the primary intelligence unit known as the Corrections Victoria Intelligence Unit (CVIU), and localised prison intelligence units located at the public and private prison facilities in Victoria. CVIU assists Corrections Victoria through the gathering of intelligence and informing decisionmakers to help keep Victorian prisons and the community safe.
Security Standards Unit
The Security Standards Unit (SSU) is responsible for providing the Victorian correctional system with subject matter expert advice, support and testing in relation to a broad range of areas including security risk management, physical security, annual procedural security reviews, schematic plans, state-wide locksmith services and maintaining a range of policy documents. The SSU is responsible for monitoring the minimum-security requirements for all prisons and secure locations on an annual basis, as well as ensuring that the standards are reviewed regularly.
Electronic Monitoring Services
Electronic Monitoring Services (EMS) is responsible for the electronic monitoring of offenders on parole orders, community corrections orders and post-sentence supervision orders. These orders are made by relevant bodies in accordance with the Corrections Regulations 2009, Serious Offenders Act 2018 (Vic), Sentencing Act 1991 (Vic) and the Corrections Act 1986 (Vic).
Additionally, EMS provides stakeholders with information in relation to offenders’ compliance with electronic monitoring. EMS are also responsible for training internal stakeholders in essential equipment and electronic monitoring technology platforms.