FAMILY violence victims are being let down by the system, senior Victorian police concede.
Acting Assistant Commissioner for crime command Rod Jouning says a one-size-fits all approach to family violence is not working and police are looking at ways to target those at higher risk.
Police and agencies, including the justice system and human services department, also need to work together better to share information to protect victims, he said.
His comments follow two family violence incidents over the past week that claimed three lives.
A man has been charged with the murder of his daughters, aged three and four, on Easter Sunday and a mother of four was allegedly killed by her de facto partner in a busy Melbourne shopping strip last Wednesday.
Mr Jouning said police will drive changes to have a joined-up response, rather than agencies working in isolation, for violence victims.
"I don't think we do that as well as we could," he told reporters on Wednesday.
"We need to be wrapping the services around the victim themselves.
"We don't need victims to be navigating through a system."
Targeting those at higher risk could also include better monitoring. This meant identifying triggers that led people's violent behaviours to escalate, prompting a need for more intensive intervention.
Victoria records about 60,000 family violence incidents a year. There were 29 murders related to family violence in the last financial year.
This figure was slightly under half - 43 per cent - of all murders committed in the state, Mr Jouning said.
"While we've got deaths, we're not doing it properly," he said.
"If we put people in the system to protect them, those support services need to be around to pick up those people."
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