“This of course means that police won’t necessarily have the information at hand as to the pattern of abuse over time,” she said.
She said police need to be to appropriately recruited and trained to be able to identify and assess the risk associated with coercive control, to be able to identify the person most in need of protection in a situation and respond to the pattern of abusive behaviour over time, not just in jobs they’re called out to.
Full Stop Australia chief executive Hayley Foster.
“The other thing we need to get better at, nationally, is ensuring police in every Australian state and territory can access information about protection orders, charges and convictions in other jurisdictions, and they need to be empowered to police protection orders when the offender is breaching that order in their state or territory.
“We are still seeing far too many occasions where offenders are getting away with their offending by skipping the particular state or territory they are in and getting off scot-free.
“The onus shouldn’t be on the person targeted by that abuse to have to go to another courthouse to register their protection order in order to be safe.”
Superintendent David Johnson said the technology, which had been trialled with some officers across the state, was groundbreaking and world leading.
He said it was a more streamlined process, given officers previously had to call interstate offices to clarify details of protection orders before information was electronically available.
Previously police would have had to call interstate offices to clarify information around protection orders. Credit:Police Media
“I spoke with one sergeant who told me that he spent over 30 minutes trying to read through complex historical domestic violence cases to interpret what the current situation was and what action needed to be taken,” he said.
“We will know for respondents if they have a history of violence or perceived violence, if they’ve made any threats, if there are any warnings or alerts at a national level against the person that police need to take into consideration.
“Every known person of interest in Australia is there in the palm of your hand.”
Police employ new tech to stop DV offenders evading interstate orders
Source: Philippines Alive
