POLICE are taking the scourge of domestic abuse very seriously but they cannot handle it alone, a constable says.
On Monday night, Constable Ishmael Watkins defended the efforts and inroads which the force had been making to assist those in need of assistance.
Quoting from a CADRES survey on domestic violence, head of the SAVE Foundation Liesel Daisley, a guest at the People’s Cathedral bi-weekly men’s fellowship meeting, had said that 74 per cent of victims felt that the law did not do enough to prevent domestic violence.
Moreover, 76 per cent of them feel that the court’s response to domestic violence was not relevant, hence the church was the first place where victims turned, with the welfare department second.
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