Victoria Police members endorse pay deal, ending 18-month standoff

More than 16,000 Victorian Police Association members have voted to endorse a pay deal, ending an 18-month standoff with the state government.

Under the deal signed by 76 per cent of members, frontline officers will get an annual 5 per cent pay increase every year for four years.

Other officers will get a 4.5 per cent pay rise each year.

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The deal is below the 24 per cent increase over four years the union had initially sought.

The deal will also end a long-standing policy where retiring officers received up to a year's salary for any unused sick leave. 

"The finalisation of this industrial dispute is just the first step in a raft of improvements that desperately need to occur quickly to support our front line, so that it can continue to protect and support the community," the police association said in a statement.

"Our attention must immediately shift to filling the gaping holes that exist in the front line, by refocusing on recruitment and retention of police officers and PSOs and embarking on reforms to the criminal justice system to support the work they do."

Police association members supported a no-confidence motion in former commissioner Shane Patton earlier this month which saw his immediate exit from the role.

Rick Nugent, who was the emergency services commissioner, is now in his place as the acting police chief.

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