Australian Domestic and Family Violence Protection Order

Detects domestic and family violence protection orders, police-issued notices and directions, and applications for them, in every Australian jurisdiction, when the document names the parties. Covers Qld protection orders, temporary protection orders, Police Protection Notices and Police Protection Directions; NSW apprehended domestic violence orders (including provisional orders); Vic family violence intervention orders and family violence safety notices; WA family violence restraining orders; SA intervention orders; Tas police family violence orders and family violence orders; ACT family violence orders (interim and after-hours); NT domestic violence orders; and recognised DVOs under the National Domestic Violence Order Scheme. Complements the Queensland-specific domestic-violence-order-application classifier.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: order names are published widely in legal information, court forms and statistics, so enforce tiers depend on a populated party field. "Intervention order" and "protection order" are also used outside DFV (for example personal safety intervention orders), which are equally sensitive. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy.
Jurisdictions: au
Regulations: Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 (Qld), Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007 (NSW), Family Violence Protection Act 2008 (Vic), Restraining Orders Act 1997 (WA), Intervention Orders (Prevention of Abuse) Act 2009 (SA), Family Violence Act 2004 (Tas), Family Violence Act 2016 (ACT), Domestic and Family Violence Act 2007 (NT), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: law-enforcement, legal, pii
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 8
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Unsupported, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:(?:temporary\s+)?protection\s+orders?|domestic\s+violence\s+orders?|police\s+protection\s+(?:notices?|directions?)|(?:provisional\s+)?apprehended\s+domestic\s+violence\s+orders?|provisional\s+(?:apprehended\s+violence\s+)?order|(?:interim\s+|final\s+)?family\s+violence\s+intervention\s+orders?|family\s+violence\s+safety\s+notices?|family\s+violence\s+restraining\s+orders?|(?:interim\s+)?intervention\s+orders?|police\s+family\s+violence\s+orders?|(?:interim\s+|after-hours\s+)?family\s+violence\s+orders?|recognised\s+(?:DVO|interstate\s+order|domestic\s+violence\s+order))\b|\b(?:ADVO|FVIO|FVSN|FVRO|PFVO)s?\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

aggrieved, respondent, protected person, affected family member, person in need of protection, must not approach, ouster condition, Magistrates Court, domestic violence, family violence, domestic and family violence, family and domestic violence, intimate partner violence, [object Object], [object Object], coercive control, financial abuse, technology-facilitated abuse, non-fatal strangulation, strangulation (+55 more)

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Provisional Apprehended Domestic Violence Order. Person in need of protection: Avery Teston. Defendant: Jordan Teston. The defendant must not approach the protected person or contact them by any means except through a lawyer. — NSW provisional ADVO with parties and conditions
Family Violence Intervention Order (Final) Affected family member: Morgan Teston Respondent: Riley Teston The respondent must not go within 200 metres of the affected family member's residence. — Victorian FVIO with a distance condition
Police Protection Direction issued 14/02/2026. Aggrieved: Avery Teston. Respondent: Casey Teston. Duration: 12 months. The respondent must not contact the aggrieved by any means. — Queensland Police Protection Direction
FVRO - Magistrates Court of Western Australia Protected person: Jamie Teston Respondent: Alex Teston Restraint: the respondent is prohibited from being on or near the premises. Surrender all firearms. — WA family violence restraining order (acronym primary)
Recognised DVO (National Domestic Violence Order Scheme). Issuing jurisdiction: Tasmania. Affected person: Sam Teston. Applicant: Tasmania Police — Recognised interstate order with parties
FORM DV1 Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012 (s.32) 1. Aggrieved's details Family name: Teston Given names: Avery 2. Respondent's Details Family name: Teston Given names: Jordan DFVPA - Form DV1 - Application for a Protection Order - version 7 - approved on 19 December 2025 — Completed Qld DV1 application using form-style name fields (layout from the published form)

Should not match

An ADVO is a court order that protects a person in need of protection. The defendant must not assault, threaten or stalk the protected person, and further conditions can be added. — Legal information explainer
Form DV01 Application for a protection order Aggrieved: __________ Respondent: __________ Do you want the court to make a temporary protection order? [ ] Yes [ ] No — Blank application form
PERSON SEEKING TO BE PROTECTED Family name: __________ Given names: __________ PERSON YOU ARE SEEKING THE RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST Family name: __________ Family violence restraining order application — Blank WA FVRO application with form anchors but no names
Queensland Police issued 3,214 Police Protection Directions in the first six months of 2026, and courts made 18,900 protection orders over the same period. — Aggregate statistics

Known false positives

Legal information, court guides and training material explaining orders and conditions. Mitigation: Enforce tiers require a populated party field; explainers use party labels as nouns, not as filled fields.
Blank court forms and practice templates. Mitigation: Blank lines, square-bracket and angle-bracket placeholders, and n/a/tbc values are rejected; template text is excluded.
Non-DFV intervention or protection orders (personal safety intervention orders, child protection orders) with named parties. Mitigation: These are also sensitive person-safety records; review rather than suppress.

References

Collections

Australian Domestic and Family Violence Records