Police Response to Domestic Violence Emergency Calls

The project consists of a study aimed at determining why only approximately one in five of the emergency calls labelled as domestic violence result in reporting a crime. Another goal is to establish the course of a typical domestic violence incident, and the actions taken on the basis of such calls.

Timescale: January 2015 – December 2016

Partners: Police Department of the Ministry of the Interior, University of Turku, University of Tampere, National Police Board, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Ministry of Justice

Funding: EUR 97 000 from the Ministry of the Interior’s research appropriations and from the Police Department of the Ministry of the Interior

Contact persons at the Police University College: Project Manager Juha Kääriäinen and Researcher Monica Fagerlund. Email addresses: [email protected] (please note: juha.t.kaariainen).