This question is not an allegation and is posed in response to an article that appeared in the Guardian on the 12th of May 2021 under the headline ‘Queensland police discriminated against 200 potential male recruits in favour of women’ and sent to the CAA by a concerned reader of our recent article ‘Police staffing faces a perfect storm’.
Whether this has applied in Victoria, we do not know, but anecdotal information has been consistent that male recruit applicants are routinely discarded without given a reason. They have apparently not been advised of any deficiencies so that they can address them, which seems unfair. 

Moreover, the number and ratio of Police Training squads is no firm indication as to whether there is discrimination because we do not know whether all the female recruits have been selected on merit and the males used to fill up the numbers.

This leads to the suspicion that an ‘aspirational ‘(euphemism for discrimination) gender quoter system may be being applied in Victoria.

The Guardian article reports on the findings of the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission which said, ‘…the state police service’s 50/50 recruitment strategy resulted in discriminatory practices being used against male candidates.’ 

Full story https://caainc.org.au/the-police-staffing-storm-is-it-of-their-own-making/