Supporting police professionals to address perpetrators of domestic violence

Train one of the key actors to end violence against women

Police professionals play a crucial role in responding to domestic violence, protecting survivors, and holding perpetrators accountable. They carry out important yet challenging tasks, where their attitudes toward gender-based violence and domestic violence, as well as their competencies and approaches, make a significant difference in the outcomes of their interventions.

Professionals working with perpetrators can support police professionals in improving their responses to DV cases, particularly by enhancing their understanding of perpetrators, including coercive control, identifying the primary perpetrator in cases of mutual accusations, conducting conversations with perpetrators, and potentially referring them to perpetrator programmes.

This Training of Trainers (ToT) will equip you with the key competencies needed to design and deliver training for police professionals in your respective countries. The ToT is intended for professionals working with perpetrators of domestic violence.

Learn how to:

Use your expertise in working with perpetrators to support police professionals.
Challenge and change stereotypes about domestic violence and perpetrators of domestic violence.
Help police professionals maintain a gender-informed perspective when intervening in DV cases.
Assist police professionals in understanding, identifying, and documenting coercive control.
Support police professionals in conducting effective interviews with perpetrators of domestic violence.

Training agenda

Session 1

Explore opportunities for effective collaboration between perpetrator programmes and the police.
Identify national and local specifics to consider when training police professionals.

Session 2

Understand how to support police professionals in maintaining a gender-informed approach when intervening in DV cases.
Learn how to empower police professionals to identify and respond to potential manipulation by perpetrators.
Learn about the typologies of domestic violence.

Session 3

Learn approaches to explain coercive control to police professionals and support them in identifying and documenting coercive patterns.

Session 4

Learn how to support police professionals in approaching victims of domestic violence.
Understand how trauma-informed practices can be applied in police work on DV cases.

Session 5

Learn how to empower police professionals to better understand perpetrators of domestic violence and hold them accountable.
Identify possible frameworks for training police professionals in respective countries

The trainer

Gill McKinna

Gill McKinna is the Head of the Caledonian System National Team. The Caledonian System is an integrated approach to address men’s use of abusive behaviour towards female partners. It consists of a court mandated men’s behaviour change programme with integrated women’s and children’s services and is accredited by the Scottish Advisory Panel for Offender Rehabilitation.

Gill’s academic career includes a degree in Social Work and a Master’s degree in Psychological Trauma Studies. She has extensive experience working within Scotland’s justice system and has spent the majority of her front line social work career specialising in the delivery of the Caledonian System. Gill has a commitment to trauma informed practice and to the continued growth and development of the Caledonian System.

This training offered a foundation to when and why you would use motivational interviewing with clients. With opportunities to practice and reflect on my own work, this training was a safe place to start discovering this technique.

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This training offered a foundation to when and why you would use motivational interviewing with clients. With opportunities to practice and reflect on my own work, this training was a safe place to start discovering this technique.

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