Personal safety responses including home modifications, personal duress alarms and CCTV are increasingly being used to enhance the safety of people experiencing family violence.
Using these personal safety responses has been found to deter perpetrators from breaching intervention orders and when a breach occurs, enables the collection of evidence to support criminal prosecutions.
Victim survivors are supported through the Personal Safety Initiative to access appropriate and effective technology and security responses to allow them to remain safely in their own homes and communities. Personal safety responses for victim survivors experiencing or at risk of experiencing family violence are funded and accessed through the Victorian Government’s Family Violence Flexible Support Package program.
