Recommendation 8.1.1
The operational Police Officers and staff are made aware of PNC warning markers and reminded that they should be used whenever appropriate.
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About this page. This page summarises a Domestic Homicide Review published in the Home Office DHR Library. The full report is available at the source link below. Victim and perpetrator names are not included in extracted summaries on this page.
Source · Domestic Homicide Review
Derbyshire Dales review
CSP: Derbyshire Dales
Published: April 2023
Year of death: 2012
Extracted: 7 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
Original review (PDF) ↗
Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary AI-generated
Key concerns include agencies' and the victim's failure to recognise coercive control and domestic abuse indicators. The report highlights issues with police recording practices, such as warning markers, and the need for enhanced professional curiosity in probing for underlying concerns in potential domestic abuse cases.
Home Office classifications
26 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
- Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
- Perpetrator - case heard in court
- Perpetrator - issued life sentence
- Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
- Perpetrator - substance misuse
- Perpetrator - mental ill health
- Perpetrator - anxiety
- Perpetrator - depression
- Perpetrator - suicidal thoughts
- Perpetrator - serious or life limiting illness
- Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
- Perpetrator - known to friends as a domestic abuse perpetrator
- Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
- Perpetrator - attended drug and alcohol services
- Aggravating factors - separation
- Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
- Aggravating factors - physical abuse
- DHR process - family contributed to dhr
- DHR process - family consulted about terms of reference
- DHR process - family attended dhr panel
- DHR process - police recommendations
- DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
- DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
- DHR process - training recommendation themes
- DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
- DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
Recommendation 8.1.2
Front line Police Officers should receive awareness training in relation to potential indicators of coercive control in domestic abuse and what action to take.
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Recommendation 8.1.3
Front line Police Officers should receive training on the importance of professional curiosity in asking probing and explorative questions to identify underlying concerns rather than accept the presenting issues in potential domestic abuse cases.
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Recommendation 8.2.1
The Derbyshire Safer Communities Board should take steps to raise public awareness of the importance of recognising the role of coercive control in domestic abuse cases.
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Recommendation 8.2.2
Derbyshire Safer Communities Board to ensure multi agency domestic abuse training should include specific training on the role of coercive control in domestic abuse and potential indicators of such control.
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Recommendation 8.2.3
Consideration to be given to sharing the newly developed police domestic abuse pack with other agencies. The purpose would be to estimate its usefulness by others in providing information and details of support to victims of domestic abuse.
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Recommendation 8.2.4
The Derbyshire Safer Communities Board to seek assurance that the recommendations are addressed within 6 months of the date the report is accepted by the Derbyshire Safer Communities Board .
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