over five years as part of the Public Safety Package to improve PORT's response to public order incidents and events. New specialist vehicles, equipment and uniforms were purchased, 40 additional officers allocated to PORT and increased training was delivered. In 2018, Victoria Police said that all of the 324 officers in the ORU would now be required to complete the Public Order Response Team course to be able to supplement PORT if required. In 2021, Police Life magazine reported that the Operations Response Unit was now known as the Public Order Response Team. Operations PORT was involved in the removal of Occupy Melbourne from the City Square in October 2011, the Grocon Emporium site CFMEU dispute in August 2012 over three weeks, and the East West Link Tunnel Protests in January 2014. PORT regularly deploys large numbers of officers to A-League soccer matches held within Victoria. PORT provides core assistance each weekend to Operation Safe Streets in the Melbourne CBD conducted on a Friday and Saturday night. Their focus is on visiting licensed premises and other popular late night venues and also assist with out of control parties as well as generalised public order policing. The Safe Streets Taskforce is a highly visible police operation conducted in areas with alcohol related public order issues. Equipment PORT is issued with a range of crowd control and riot equipment. PORT officers are equipped with a PR-24 rigid side handle baton, plastic handcuffs, helmet, light weight body armour and gas masks. PORT officers use three types of shields: round, intermediate and long. In March 2018, PORT introduced new tactical equipment including the VKS Pepperball paintball gun for pepper balls and paintballs, Stinger rubber ball grenades, stun grenades, OC canister grenades and the Penn Arms L140-4 40mm grenade launcher for foam baton rounds. PORT commenced using the new tactical equipment operationally in September 2018. In mid-2020, PORT officers received training in the Daniel Defense DDM4V7S semi-automatic rifle which will be securely carried in their vehicles to enable officers to respond to active armed offender and terrorist attacks. PORT officers regular vehicle is a Toyota Kluger that allows rapid deployment to metropolitan and country locations at short notice. PORT has four Renault Trafic equipment vans and a command truck. In 2018, PORT took delivery of four transporters a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van capable of carrying up to eight officers and their equipment. See also NSW Police