Domestic Violence Law
This is defined as a household or family member as the term "family" or "household member," including any child who is a member of the household or family member.
What is Domestic Victim?
When responding to domestic violence calls, the officer must determine.
Who is the most significant (or primary physical aggressor)?
A child is defined as any person under this age.
What is 18
This evidence is reliable and difficult to dispute.
What are photographs?
*Medical records, body cam footage
A child tells an officer that a parent hit them yesterday. The child appears safe at the moment but has visible bruises. The officer must consider this reporting duty.
What is mandated report to the Missouri Children's Division/Child Abuse Hotline?
A person commits this offense if he or she knowingly causes bodily harm to a domestic victim by any means, including but not limited to use of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument, or by choking or strangulation.
What is domestic assault 2nd degree?
This is an emergency, temporary order issued immediately upon filing a petition when there is an immediate danger of domestic violence.
What is an ex parte order of protection.
What is accidental or purposeful?
Officers are immune from civil liability when:
What is act in good faith?
You are an SRO and a student reports being sexually abused by a relative who lives in the same household.
What is follow child abuse reporting: arrange medical care, preserve evidence, avoid unnecessary questioning, protect child from immediate danger?
A person commits this offense if a person purposely places a domestic victim in apprehension of immediate bodily harm by any means.
What is domestic assault 4th degree?
Before leaving a domestic violence scene, an officer should consider the victim's safe communication options, access to support, and this broader planning process.
What is a safety plan?
This is a key priority when responding to a report of suspected child abuse.
What is protect the child from immediate danger (provide medical attention, investigate, and mandatory notifications)?
This entity investigates abuse, neglect, and exploitation of vulnerable individuals 60 and older (and people with disabilities between 18 and 59).
What is the Department of Health and Senior Services?
A DV victim calls dispatch and reports that an active court order protects him/her against the suspect. The suspect is at the residence.
What is verify the order of protection (parties, terms, etc.), investigate, and make arrests if applicable/PC is established?
A person who has been found guilty of two or more assault offenses, where two or more offenses occurred within 10 years of the occurrence of the assault offense.
What is Persistent Assault Offender?
When determining the primary physical aggressor, the officer must consider:
(1) Intent of the law (victim protection)
(2) Extent of injuries (or serious threat of injury)
(3) History of violence
When a police officer takes a juvenile into temporary protective order, within ____ a statement must be filed with the juvenile officer/Family Court.
What is 12 hours?
*Must include the child's identity, case facts/circumstances, and reasonable cause that the child was in imminent danger of serious physical harm or a threat to life.
DAILY DOUBLE
A person commits this offense if the person intentionally harasses, intimidates, or threatens any other person while hiding or concealing their face with a mask, hood, or any other article or device for the person of concealing their identify and with the intent to place another in reasonable fear for their physical safety.
What is Masked Intimidation?
An officer responds to a domestic assault, discovers a child may have been abused, and finds that the suspect is nearby. The response must address these priorities.
What is (1) scene safety, (2) investigation of the alleged offense(s), and (3) required child abuse notification?
A person who has been found guilty of one assault offense, where such prior offense occurred within five years of the occurrence of the assault offense for which the person is charged.
What is Prior Assault Offender?
Any order of protection issued in any stated/US territory shall be enforceable and given:
What is Full Faith and Credit?
This review panel is a multidisciplinary state and county system to review the deaths of children under the age of 18.
What is the Missouri Child Fatality Review Panel?
Loss of consciousness, blurred vision, chin abrasions, and inability to control urine/stool may be a sign of:
What is strangulation?
You find a 5-year-old alone in an apartment. The door is unlocked, the stove is on, and the child is unable to identify when the caregiver will return.
Follow child abuse/neglect process: investigate possible neglect and environmental danger, attempt to locate a caregiver, emergency protection procedures.