DASH Domestic Abuse DVPN/DVPO Flashcards
Define Domestic Abuse
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
What are the golden hour rules for officers attending domestics?
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
Describe Domestic Abuse vs Stranger Abuse
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
What are the 3 main types of relationship violence?
- Situational couple violence
- Coercive controlling behaviour/Intimate Terrorism
- Violent resistance
What are the barriers to reporting domestics?
- 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
Explain Stockholm Syndrome
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
What does the DASH model seek to do?
- 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
What are the risk levels for Domestic Abuse?
- 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
What is a PPN?
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
Define Section 75A(1) of the Serious Crime Act 2015
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
Define Section 75A(2) Serious Crime Act 2015
It is a defence to an offence under this section for A to show that B consented to the strangulation or other act
Define Section 75A(3) Serious Crime Act 2015
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
What are additional safeguarding measures for Domestic Abuse?
- Police and Cocoon watch
- MARAC
- TecSOS
- Widsorm
- Drive
- Clare’s Law
- Assertive Outreach Crisis
- DVPN/DVPO
Define MARAC
- 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
Define a DVPN
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
