What Do Professionals Need to Know?

Criminal Justice

How OPDV Can Help

Resources

Articles

• Coordinated and Consistent Enforcement of Violations of Orders of Protections Can be a Crucial Tool in Stopping Domestic Violence (printer-friendly/pdf)

Helpful Checklists

• Review Checklist: On-Scene Investigation and Immediate Follow-up
• Review Checklist: Domestic Violence Follow-up Investigation Checklist
• Further On-Scene Investigation: General “What to Do” Checklist
• Further On-Scene Investigation: General Checklist for Interviewing
• Further On-Scene Investigation: Interviewing the Accused
• Further On-Scene Investigation: Interviewing Victims
• Further On-Scene Investigation: Interviewing Children

Training Tools

• Orders of Protection Chart

• New DIR facesheet (text version) and DIR training info

Helpful Websites

• New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services
• New York State Police
• United States Department of Justice/Violence Against Women Office
• New York State Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives
• New York State Division of Parole

Laws and Legislation

• For the current NYS Stalking Laws, please go to: http://www.ncvc.org/src/main.aspx?dbID=DB_NewYork214
  

Policies

• Model Domestic Incident Policy for Law Enforcement - Municipal Police Training Council - printer-friendly/pdf 1

1. Note: If you cannot use a PDF document, please contact opdvpublicinfo@opdv.state.ny.us and the same document, in an accessible format, will be provided to you.