Christophe Castaner and Marlène Schiappa presented Friday a new grid of 23 questions for law enforcement, so they better assess the warning signals of victims of domestic violence when they come to the police station or gendarmerie.
A will of the associations
This grid "was expected, requested by the associations", commented the Minister of the Interior during a visit to the gendarmerie school of Chaumont-sur-Marne, in Haute-Marne, in the company of the secretary of State responsible in particular for Equality between women and men. "It is essential to better understand and understand the risk" to which the victim is confronted, and "to better help the police, the gendarmes in the way they conduct their first interview," he said.
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It "may also help the victim to understand, through his answers to the questions, that there are behaviors that are unbearable," he added. This evaluation grid, the result of one of the eleven working groups of the "Grenelle of Domestic Violence", includes 23 questions that the policeman or police officer will have to ask the victim of violence within a couple, regardless of a complaint. Some of the answers will, more than others, attract the attention of the security forces.
"Modeling risks in a simple way"
Among them: "In your opinion, did your partner or former partner know about your separation project, or are you separated?", "The frequency of violence (verbal, physical, sexual or psychological) was it increased recently? ", or" does your partner or former partner have firearms (declared or not)? " "The grid must make it possible to model in a simple way risks" and must "easily make it possible to identify the situations which can lead to a passage to the act", explained the controller general of the National Police, Vincent Le Béguec, who participated in the working group composed of police officers, gendarmes, members of associations and psychologists.
The government launched in early September a "Grenelle of domestic violence", whose conclusions will be announced Monday. Some 60 proposals from the working groups were handed over at the end of October to Secretary of State Marlène Schiappa. "We are very aware that law enforcement saves women's lives on a daily basis," said Marlène Schiappa.