Poland has what is called a ‘Blue Card’ system that is intended to improve cooperation between various actors engaged in assistance to the victims of domestic violence. It entails all courses of action undertaken by social services, local committees for solving alcohol abuse problems, the police, NGOs, education and healthcare institutions in relation to a reasonable suspicion of a domestic abuse incident. Interestingly, police in Ukraine are currently drafting sub-legislative acts which would outline the procedure of cooperation among these services.
The delegation was also briefed on how domestic violence cases are managed in Poland: how tasking is done, who is responsible for dealing with such cases.
Representative Of Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs Mykola Repan was pleased to answer questions from Polish colleagues about conducting trainings at the Center for Countering and Preventing Domestic Violence of Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs, which was created with the assistance of the OSCE Project Coordinator in Ukraine to develop practical skills in preventing and countering domestic violence and tactics actions of the police in communication with the victim and the offender, including psychological and medical assistance. The positive practice of police training led the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine to choose a university as a basic institution to participate in an international project to train mobile teams to combat domestic violence in Ukraine. In 2017, over 100 police officers from various regions of Ukraine were trained by OSCE and United Nations Population Fund in this center.
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