The facilities of the School of Public Security of the City of Cartagena (ESPAC) will host a course on 'Upcoming police and normative intervention on gender violence'.
Thus, from today Tuesday, May 16, until next Monday 22, a total of 30 police officers will be formed on one of the issues that cause more social alarm in our society.
It is especially aimed at police and commanders of the Family Protection Unit, the members of the Operational Area of ​​Citizen Security, specialized in family violence and all those units involved in the first steps in this area.
Its objective is to publicize the update on police and normative intervention in gender violence in order to prevent, detect and act against aggression and ill-treatment in the domestic sphere.
The course is addressed from four axes, such as the Psychosocial and Judicial Area, which shows how the psychosocial care of the victims, protocols and mechanisms of action to be activated;
On the other hand, the Police Department studies the creation and training of police services for the treatment and prosecution of domestic and domestic violence crimes and, in addition, reviews the protocols of action and the introduction of risk assessment Of violence.
From the criminal and procedural area will study the types of criminal, legal autonomy, criminal qualification and protection measures, and finally, in the Medical-Forensic Area, the symptomatology presented by the victims and the first interventions to be performed are studied.
The teachers of the course are professionals with extensive experience in this field as psychologists of the Office of Assistance to Victims of Cartagena;
The National Police Inspector and Head of the Women's Care Service Group;
Lawyers and forensic officers of the Court of Violence against Women of Cartagena.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena