Browsing by Subject "Police training"

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    • Going the extra mile: police training on domestic violence 

      Combrinck, Helene; Wakefield, Lorenzo (Institute for Security Studies, 2010)
      As anticipated by the drafters of the Domestic Violence Act (DVA), the South African Police Service holds the key to the successful implementation of the Act. Over the past ten years, researchers and independent bodies ...

    • Training for police on the Domestic Violence Act 

      Combrinck, Helene; Wakefield, Lorenzo (Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2009)
      The inadequate or inappropriate police responses to domestic violence often result from a lack of knowledge of the Domestic Violence Act (DVA) and the National Instruction or from a misinterpretation of the DVA’s provisions. ...