The band still operates today, though with reduced numbers and not competitively, after a controversial decision in 2000 to reshape it.
It is Australia's most successful pipe band, having obtained three third-place results at the Worlds in years directly prior to its win in 1998.
John McKerral who was to become the Original Pipe Major (1936-47) approached Chief Commissioner Blamey who supported his idea of a Police Pipe Band and, low key support from upper echelons was to ensure the bands success.
The Band's first fifty years are comprehensively documented in the profusely illustrated volume 'Piping Through Time" written and compiled by Judith White Evans and published by the Victoria Police Highland Pipe Band in 1986.
[1] Buoyed by its success, Victoria Police Pipe Band spent the next decade dominating Australian competition, claiming six consecutive grade one titles locally whilst continuing to compete internationally.