Victoria Police Real Stories: Constable Tom Horsten

Tom joined Victoria Police at the start of 2020 and found his past experiences helped in his new career and as he transitioned to operational work.
“I spent about 15 years boundary umpiring and central umpiring football in the Australian rules. Six years down at the VFL and I ended up leaving
that career to come and join Victoria Police. I found a lot of those skills were very transferable, especially with dealing with conflict on a football field. And then de-escalating and then moving on with what I had to do.”
Stationed in Ballarat and having grown up in a country town, Tom has been drawn to the community side of policing. He leans on being able to communicate honestly with people and building trust with individuals.
“Everyone’s got their own story and everyone wants to empathise
with another person”.
Tom loves the variety of general duties policing, “every day you have no idea what you're going to walk into. You might have all these plans to do all these things for the day and then very serious jobs happening out the road and you've got to go at the drop of a hat. And I love that part of it. I reckon that's awesome that we have no idea what we're going to walk into every day”.
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