What are the Domestic violence laws overseas

**Policefan1978** · 01-29-13, 02:33 PM

AWhat are the lawas concerning domestic viloence or emotionalabuse in the United Kingdom? I have an online friend who lives in the UK and theway her husband treats her is terrible.

**Trojan 42** · 01-29-13, 03:14 PM

Domestic violence is taken very seriously by the police and courts here. IF she is willing to make a complaint AND be willing to follow it through it will be dealt with.

**Xiphos** · 01-29-13, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by Trojan 42

Domestic violence is taken very seriously by the police and courts here. IF she is willing to make a complaint AND be willing to follow it through it will be dealt with.

Yep, same here. I suspect that IF is just as big there as it is here. I can count on one hand the number of cooperative DV victims I had when court came around during my entire career. In fact I had a big case a year ago where the victim went so far as to swear out a false affidavit accusing me of perjury and trying to get her to commit perjury during Grand Jury. When the defense attorney heard my audio he withdrew the motion. I sent over charges on her for it but they were quashed because we don't charge "victims." Giant. Waste. Of. Time. Cynical? Just a little.

**Policefan1978** · 01-29-13, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by Trojan 42

Domestic violence is taken very seriously by the police and courts here. IF she is willing to make a complaint AND be willing to follow it through it will be dealt with.

Trojan thank you. I will let my friend know this.
PoliceLady

**Pudge** · 01-30-13, 12:33 AM

Originally Posted by Xiphos

Yep, same here. I suspect that IF is just as big there as it is here. I can count on one hand the number of cooperative DV victims I had when court came around during my entire career. In fact I had a big case a year ago where the victim went so far as to swear out a false affidavit accusing me of perjury and trying to get her to commit perjury during Grand Jury. When the defense attorney heard my audio he withdrew the motion. I sent over charges on her for it but they were quashed because we don't charge "victims." Giant. Waste. Of. Time. Cynical? Just a little.

Domestic Violence? What's that? Oh...that's the charge we arrest them for that's a precursor to a Disorderly Conduct plea. Save me a seat on the SS Cynical.

**SteelCityK9Cop** · 01-30-13, 02:22 PM

18 years on the job... I have never successfully prosecuted a domestic violence case.

If your friend has not left him yet....she never will and will continue to be a victim for the rest of her life. Her sons will most likely beat their wives and her daughters will be the next generation of victims.

Hopefully you can sway her to leave.

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**DILLON 45** · 01-30-13, 10:32 PM

Originally Posted by Trojan 42

Domestic violence is taken very seriously by the police and courts here. IF she is willing to make a complaint AND be willing to follow it through it will be dealt with.

"It's not until you look at an Ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day, that you realise just how often they burst into flames for no reason!"

Perhaps you should go to the ant and observe how hard this creature works, maintains order and cultivates food for all in it's society.
Much can be learned from an ant, BESIDES BURNING IT ALIVE.

**DILLON 45** · 01-30-13, 11:26 PM

I 'm sure any Police Officer can write a book on domestic calls. Most are routine but now and again some turn ugly very fast, and Police Officers caught in the wake end up seriously injured or dead.

I can tell you first hand how a domestic dispute ended a 16 year career as of a result of one officer not taking the situation serious and allowed
himself to become a victim. As a result the back up officer arrived on the scene to find the officer being assaulted by both husband and wife.
End result was, the responding officer did not do his job and the second officer was struck in the head with a pipe while rescuing the
the other. There is much more to the incident but I'm sure you get the gist, I know I did, the back up officer was me..

**berserk** · 02-12-13, 09:43 PM

Originally Posted by DILLON 45

"It's not until you look at an Ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day, that you realise just how often they burst into flames for no reason!"

Perhaps you should go to the ant and observe how hard this creature works, maintains order and cultivates food for all in it's society.
Much can be learned from an ant, BESIDES BURNING IT ALIVE.

So.... I'm missing the metaphor here. Is domestic violence like an ant? Or are the ants the victims? Are we burning them alive by thinking they should make a complaint before we make an arrest? Or is all of that just how we all gather food, and we burn each other alive by asking questions?

Or is this not a metaphor at all, but you just happen to like ants?

**Trojan 42** · 02-13-13, 04:45 AM

Originally Posted by DILLON 45

"It's not until you look at an Ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day, that you realise just how often they burst into flames for no reason!"

Perhaps you should go to the ant and observe how hard this creature works, maintains order and cultivates food for all in it's society.
Much can be learned from an ant, BESIDES BURNING IT ALIVE.

Perhaps YOU should get a sense of humour!

**DILLON 45** · 02-13-13, 09:43 PM

Originally Posted by berserk

So.... I'm missing the metaphor here. Is domestic violence like an ant? Or are the ants the victims? Are we burning them alive by thinking they should make a complaint before we make an arrest? Or is all of that just how we all gather food, and we burn each other alive by asking questions?

Or is this not a metaphor at all, but you just happen to like ants?

Trojan 42 has this caption at the bottom. "It's not until you look at an Ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day, that you realize just how often they burst into flames for no reason!"

To answer your question about ants. Yes I like and admire them, those who have or had an ant farm would know why I like them.

**DILLON 45** · 02-13-13, 09:50 PM

Originally Posted by Trojan 42

Perhaps YOU should get a sense of humour!

Perhaps I already have one. FE FI FO FUM I smell the blood of an Englishman. I say old boy pip pip cheerio and all that sort rot. And you say I have
no sense of humor, ta ta..

**Trojan 42** · 02-14-13, 03:46 AM

I tried an Ant Farm once, but it didn't work out because those little buggers just couldn't pull the plough.

See, now that's humour.

**DILLON 45** · 02-14-13, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by Trojan 42

I tried an Ant Farm once, but it didn't work out because those little buggers just couldn't pull the plough.

See, now that's humour.

Ok you got me there, now that was good humor. Pull a plough, I never thought of that one, very good old boy

**berserk** · 02-14-13, 09:27 PM

Originally Posted by DILLON 45

Trojan 42 has this caption at the bottom. "It's not until you look at an Ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day, that you realize just how often they burst into flames for no reason!"

To answer your question about ants. Yes I like and admire them, those who have or had an ant farm would know why I like them.

Ah. Check that out, so he does. Wonder what other funny taglines I've been ignoring all this time?

I'm going to have to agree that you have no sense of humor, though.