Print Police organisation1.The training of police officers and representatives of other public agencies, especially of judicial authorities must be given special attention in view of their very delicate and responsible task in dealing with male domestic violence. It has proved very advantageous to involve in police training programmes persons who have gained experience in dealing with violent men or their victims in homes for battered women or in similar institutions. With respect to combating violence against migrant women it appears very useful to recruit police officers who are intimately acquainted with other cultures. For this purpose, it is also necessary to recruit more female police officers.
2. The police should draw up both annual and long-term action plans for every authority, which should describe operative police activities for the prevention of violence and the protection of victims, and should allocate sufficient funds for such activities.
3. The police should designate a competent officer for each organisational unit who would be entrusted with policy implementation.
4. Each organisational unit of the police should have specially trained officers to deal with incidents of violence against women.
5. With the assistance of state and private experts, the police should work out specific procedures and develop specialised training courses and documentation for the purpose of improving basic, in-service and executive training programmes to combat male domestic violence against women and children.
6. The police should make sure that every police officer is able to prevent re-victimisation and to implement effective legal measures for assuring the safety of victims.
7. As a matter of principle, the police should provide assistance, counselling and the necessary information to victims and refer them to the competent institutions affording support to victims.
8. The police should develop a smoothly functioning registration system which would not only record the number of requests for assistance received, but also the type of police intervention, as well as personal data of the perpetrator, including information on previous arrests, appearances in court and convictions.
9. The police must strive for comprehensive gender parity and suitable minority policies in all organisational units and should foster the institutional culture necessary to achieve this goal. All police units must pursue a policy aimed at eliminating all forms of violence against women.
10. The police should further the development of special projects within all organisations units with the aim of integrating experience with innovative and tailor-made changes into practical police work.
11. The police should set up effective control mechanisms on a permanent basis, which could be used both within units as well as by outside experts