DASH Domestic Abuse DVPN/DVPO Flashcards

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Define Domestic Abuse

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Behaviour of a person A towards another person B is domestic abuse if:

A&B are each aged 16 or over and are personally connected to each other and the behaviour is abusive

Behaviour is ‘abusive’ if it consists of any of the following - physical or sexual abuse, violent or threatening behaviour, controlling or coercive behaviour; economic abuse; psychological, emotional or other abuse; And it does not matter whether the behaviour consists of a single incident or a course of conduct

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What are the golden hour rules for officers attending domestics?

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Preserve life

  • Risk
  • safeguarding
  • Officer safety
  • Medical Assistance
  • Police Protection
  • Powers of Entry
  • Decision Making

Victims

  • Medical Assistance
  • Risk Assessed/Managed
  • Body worn video
  • Physical Evidence
  • First Account
  • Safeguarding
  • Type of Witness
  • Injuries
  • Risk

Witnesses

  • First disclosure
  • Social Media
  • House to House
  • witnesses
  • Types of Witness

Crime Scene

  • Crime scenes
  • Identification
  • Preservation
  • Common approach path
  • Log books/cordons
  • Cross contamination
  • Staff
  • Recording
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Describe Domestic Abuse vs Stranger Abuse

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Domestic Abuse

  • Victim and abuser known to each other
  • Domestic abuse behind closed doors
  • Lack of evidence
  • Domestic abuse gives the offender access to the victim
  • Might not report abuse
  • Blame them self
  • Child maybe abused
  • Breach of trust

Stranger Abuse

  • Stranger violence treated more seriously
  • Stranger violence usually a one off
  • Stranger violence gives the victim a place of safety -home
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What are the 3 main types of relationship violence?

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  1. Situational couple violence
  2. Coercive controlling behaviour/Intimate Terrorism
  3. Violent resistance
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What are the barriers to reporting domestics?

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  • One off
  • Public humiliation
  • Not believed
  • Loss of children
  • The victim’s own fault
  • Can’t accept it’s domestic violence
  • Wrong outcome
  • What happens when the police leave?
  • Fear, criticism, ostracised, blamed by family
  • Not a police matter
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Explain Stockholm Syndrome

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Van der Kolk 1996

Positive feelings towards the victimiser

Negative feelings towards towards potential rescuer

Develops after 4 days of captivity

Traumatised people lead traumatic and traumatising lives

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What does the DASH model seek to do?

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  • Help front line practitioners and specialists staff identify high risk DA, stalking and harassment and HBA
  • Help staff to identify dangerous and serial perpetrators
  • Decide which cases should be referred to MARAC and what other support might be required. A completed form becomes an active record
  • A common tool for agencies that are part of MARAC process and provides a shared understanding of risk in relation to DASH and HBA
  • Enable agencies to make defensible decisions from extensive research of cases, including domestic homicides and ‘near misses’ which underpins most models of RA
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What are the risk levels for Domestic Abuse?

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  • Standard - current evidence does not indicate likelihood of causing serious harm
  • Medium - There are identifiable indicators of risk of serious harm. Offender has potential to cause serious harm but unlikely unless there is a change of circumstances
  • High - There are identifiable indicators of risk of serious harm, which could happen at anytime
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What is a PPN?

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A PPN form must be submitted in every Domestic Abuse and Stalking and Harassment incident

The PPN is used to update partner agencies and share information they may be aware of in order for them to provide further assistance to the victims and other vulnerable persons

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Define Section 75A(1) of the Serious Crime Act 2015

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Strangulation or Suffocation

A person (A) commits and offence if:

a) A intentionally strangles another person (B) or
b) A does any other act to B that -
i) Affects B’s ability to breathe and
ii) constitutes battery of B

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Define Section 75A(2) Serious Crime Act 2015

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It is a defence to an offence under this section for A to show that B consented to the strangulation or other act

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Define Section 75A(3) Serious Crime Act 2015

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But subsection 2 does not apply if:

a) B suffers serious harm as a result of the strangulation or other act and
b) A either -
i) Intended to cause B serious harm or
ii) Was reckless as to whether B would suffer serious harm

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What are additional safeguarding measures for Domestic Abuse?

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  • Police and Cocoon watch
  • MARAC
  • TecSOS
  • Widsorm
  • Drive
  • Clare’s Law
  • Assertive Outreach Crisis
  • DVPN/DVPO
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Define MARAC

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  • MARAC is a gathering of agencies who aim to:
  • Safeguard adult victims
  • Link with other PP Agencies in relation to children, perpetrators and other Vulnerable Adults
  • To safeguard agency staff
  • To address the behaviour of perpetrators
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Define a DVPN

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Domestic Violence Protective Notice

Issued by the police to provide emergency protection to the victim. Includes prohibitions and must be heard by a Magistrates Court within 48 hours.

  • The perpetrator is 18 years or over
  • Reasonable grounds for believing that they have been violent or threatened violence towards the victim and this occasion AND
  • Issue of the DVPN is necessary to protect the victim from violence for a threat of violence from the perpetrator
  • The victim and the perpetrator do not have to live together
  • This is a victimless process, a DVPN does not require consent of the victim
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Define a DVPO

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Domestic Violence Protection Order

Police then apply at the court for a DVPO. Prohibitions are extended for a period between 14-28 days.

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Explain the role of an investigating officer

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Once the IO is satisfied that a DVPN is necessary they will:
- Complete the relevant form, AO authorisation form and compile any other supporting documentation
- Take reasonable steps to obtain any representations made by the perpetrator
- Submit to their supervisor to quality assure
- Submit to the AO for authorisation
- Victim views are also required (on AO application form)

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Explain the role of the Authorising Officer (AO)

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  • At least superintendent rank. The AO must have reasonable grounds to believe
  • That the perpetrator has been violent or threatened violence towards a victim
  • The DVPN is necessary to protect the victim from further violence
  • AO must consider the welfare of persons under 18 years
  • The opinion of the victim
  • The opinion of any other associated person(s) who live at the premises
  • Any representations mace by the perpetrator
  • AO must take reasonable steps to establish these opinions but consent is not required