President Neville Taylor was a recipient of an award in the Australia Day Honours list, recognized for distinguished service with an Australian Police Medal. In part, this award recognizes his work in building internal and external relationships that have contributed to the development of VICPOL. 

Neville is an alumni of the Victoria Police Leaders Mentoring Program (VPLMP) a project of this club, and represents VICPOL on its Steering Committee.  

Other recipients of the medal this year who are alumni of the program or otherwise associated with the club are Superintendent Charles Allen, a Rotary Peace Fellow and speaker at our District Conference; Inspector Stephen Mutton, a syndicate leader on the VPLMP and  contributor to the development of the “Connecting Communities” theme of the conference; and Superintendent Peter Lardner a participant in the first year of the VPLMP.