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Domestic Abuse - 576/20

Date Responded 07 May 2020

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

Please can you tell me, as of April 1st 2020, how many officers currently working within your force have been specifically trained to be first responders to reports of domestic abuse made by the public? 

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the People Services Department of Northumbria Police.  I can confirm that the information you have requested is not held by Northumbria Police.

Northumbria Police do not train officers specifically as first responders to reports of Domestic Abuse (DA) made by the public.  Training has been delivered to assist officers/staff to identify the characteristics of DA, as oppose to solely being for ‘first responders’.

All frontline officers have been DA trained through various means including face to face briefing/awareness sessions; formal classroom based training and online training packages.  For DA training purposes, frontline officers also include those working in Operations Department, Control Rooms, the Primary Investigation Centre, Secondary Investigation Unit and specialist units in the Safeguarding Department.

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

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