(AGENPARL) – RADFORD (VIRGINIA) sab 18 marzo 2023

“Domestic” partners

The Danville (Virginia) Police Department is now following a plan – developed by Radford University – that, statistics show, reduces the need for domestic incident calls.

A March 3 story by WSET news cited the recently implemented “Proactive Police Response to Domestic-Related Repeat Calls for Service” by professors of criminal justice Rachel Santos and Roberto Santos, both Ph.D. The Santoses are co-directors of Radford’s Center for Police Practice, Policy and Research (CP3R), within the College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences, and their report was made available to the public in January.

Within the strategy, Danville police revisit areas that show high volumes of calls for domestic service – including issues that range from arguments to violence – and follow up with possible preventative solutions.

“This guide provides a process for proactive police response to the short-term problem of repeat calls for service at residences, called domestic-related repeat incidents, or DRRI,” the project notes say.

“Importantly, the process does not replace what police and the criminal justice system already do for individual domestic violence crimes and victims, but provides a complementary strategy that fills a gap by systematically addressing repeat noncriminal incidents occurring at residences with the aim of forestalling more serious violence and keeping individuals, families, and the community safer.”

“They appreciated us just coming by, talking with them,” Danville Police Capt. E.K. Thompson told WSET. “The calls for service for those houses dropped dramatically.”

WSET said information contained in the report showed rates of repeat domestic incidents fell from nearly 100 to just 16 within two months of the plan’s implementation.

The Danville Police Department tweeted a direct link to the plan on March 1.

The project, a partnership between the Danville police and the CP3R, is paid for by a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.

Radford’s CP3R is a hub for faculty to network and collaborate with other researchers, experts, law enforcement personnel, investigators and administrators.

Among other activities, the Santoses frequently partner with civic agencies to pursue grant-funded projects that evaluate successful police policies and practices.

Fonte/Source: http://www.radford.edu/content/radfordcore/home/news/releases/2023/march/highlanders-in-the-news-mar-13.html