Assistant Commissioner, Lauren Callaway joined the Board in September 2024. She has been a member of Victoria Police for over 30 years in various operational positions, including her current role as Assistant Commissioner of Family Violence Command.

After working operational duties in Melbourne, Ballarat and Geelong, Lauren took a promotion to sergeant in the Intelligence and Covert Support Department (ICSC) where she spent six years involved in forensic intelligence, special projects and establishing the Sex Offenders Registry. The latter provided national exposure to an Australian wide offender tracking scheme, and also afforded her the privilege of working overseas with police in the United Kingdom.

She spent a year in the Crime Department as an Acting Inspector establishing the first iteration of the Violence Against Women and Children Strategy Group, then four years at Professional Standards, followed by a Local Area Command role at Glen Eira Bayside. She returned to Intelligence and Covert Support Command as a Superintendent to manage the Offender Management Division and focus her efforts on an expanded post sentencing scheme to include both violent and the most serious of sex offenders.

In 2018 she took on a Commander role at People Development Command where she worked on developing Victoria Police’s organisational education strategy, leading the specialist training areas and producing quality outcomes in education and training. In 2020 she took up the role as Assistant Commissioner of Family Violence Command.

She was a member of the Victoria Police Legacy Board for 11 years, and held the position of Chair for the last five years, having stepped down in 2021.