Thirty-four new police officers are heading to the North East.
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They are part of a Victorian state-wide rollout of 788 extra police announced yesterday.
There will be five, 10 and 15 police officers deployed respectively to Wodonga, Wangaratta and Benalla police districts over the course of twelve months from May.
Four shared divisional resources are also allocated for the Wangaratta and Wodonga districts.
This is part of Victoria Police's ongoing recruitment, training and deployment of more than 3000 additional officers by April 2022.
"This represents the biggest injection of regional officers in our 167-year history, with regional Victoria set to receive more than 350 frontline officers from May 2020," Deputy Commissioner Rick Nugent said.
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"This is in addition to hundreds of frontline officers and dedicated family violence, crime investigation, highway patrol, sexual offences and child abuse specialists already rolled out over the past two years."
Police said several factors are taken into consideration when allocating new resources, such as calls for assistance, reported crime, event management and traffic incidents, and the time required to provide these services.
