Therese Fitzgerald

 Therese is Victoria’s Deputy Emergency Management Commissioner. Therese has over 30 years’ experience across police and emergency services. She joined Victoria Police in 1993 and has served in a broad range of operational and leadership roles. Her experience includes international deployments with the Australian Federal Police in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, and a key role in the response to Victoria’s Black Saturday bushfires through establishing the Disaster Victim Identification Reconciliation Centre. She has led major organisational reform across prosecutions, training, safety, diversity and inclusion. During the global pandemic, she was seconded to Emergency Management Victoria as Deputy State Controller for multi‑agency operations. She was awarded the Australian Police Medal in 2017.