Arlington police adopt same-sex violence policy
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Arlington, the police is working to ensure that all of its leaders are aware that a new directive on the treatment of officials of domestic violence requires demand for same-sex couples in the same way, how these events are handled directly for couples. Capt. Michelle Nuneville police, the police chief of Arlington’s Gay & Lesbian Liaison Team (GLLT), the police official said about the new strategy calls for meetings at the beginning of the day. The police also the publication of the new procedure of fact sheets for the officers, she said. The Directive allows October 3, the judge requires Arlington to the question of the option and the protective function of the market of domestic violence by the police, if a case of abuse of same-sex partners. The Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, cases of domestic violence just for couples, is also listening to the events of the same sex. The head of the magistrate begins multi-exposure process in the [Juvenile Domestic Relations Court] for same-sex partners, the United memo. The directive was adopted, and the Juvenile Domestic Relations Court, the police and the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office. Loreann Officer Grimes, the team leader Deputy Police’s GLLT Arlington, said that the new directive, each thinking the same way for handling cases of domestic violence of the same sex. “We worked… and all officers to inform that this is the way it will happen, so that it is not for any kind of confusion on the type of options you go, “she said. Before the memo was issued, officials were handling cases of domestic violence, either for same-sex couples or domestic violence as a simple injury. In simple injuries, the victim has the option of pressing costs, and the case is heard in the General District Court in the domestic politics of aggression, persecution of the state, the victim of the author ‘offence, irrespective of the desires and the case is heard in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of Justice. Nuneville said officials must now address all cases of abuse in same-sex relationships as cases of domestic violence. “Now I think we are on the same track, all judges did the same thing, and such cases be heard by two judges of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of Justice”, she said. Robert cold, the Chief Justice of Virginia’s 17 Judicial District, including Arlington County, Falls Church, he said that the directive to the Arlington political circles with the land. Counties such as Alexandria and Fairfax have already such guidelines in force, “said Nuneville. The police sergeant. Kip Malcolm, the chief of police in Arlington GLLT said, the change is actually a procedural error thing “and” is not really a lot differently “than others recognize that, in Arlington” ” domestic production, it is a national “, and that sex The parties do not have a role. Domestic assault and grievous bodily singles are both a crime as a class, there is no difference in time served in prison for convicts perpetuators. However, domestic production of aggression, unlike the perpetuators injury simple, are prohibited weapons from his conviction. There is also a greater chance that assign a judge to anger management classes in the prevention of domestic violence cases, said Malcolm. The directive meets Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell Marshall interpretation of the amendment Newman, whereby same-sex marriage in Virginia. The Attorney General issued his opinion on the amendment of the voter. In addition to the indication that the change is not related to contracts, wills, medical care and directors of other agreements, McDonnell concluded that the amendment “does not change the application and implementation Virginia’s protection from domestic violence. ” Decisions regarding the treatment of domestic violence cases in the hands of municipalities, cold, the issue has attracted the attention of officials at Arlington a quarterly meeting. The senior official said the judge was informed that he could provide them with domestic violence of the same sex was his decision so that it is in the directive. Cold were no statistics on the number of domestic violence cases with same-sex partners, Arlington. He said he knows: “We have a little bit of everything.” According to one study, domestic violence occurs as often in same-sex relationships, as it is in relationships. During the year 2004, the National Institutes of Health revealed that more than one fifth of gay men surveyed in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles had been physically abused by a partner in the last five years. |