Ogun: Police undergo training on post-violence care, handling of GBV survivors

Officers of the Ogun State Police Command person undergone a two-day capableness gathering grooming connected Post-Violence Care and Gender-Based Violence, GBV, aimed astatine improving survivor-centred effect and investigation.

The grooming was organised by the Ogun State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development successful collaboration with the APIN Public Health Initiative.

The Command's Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Oluseyi B. Babaseyi, disclosed this successful a connection connected Wednesday.

Declaring the grooming open, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mrs Adebimpe Folusho Obienu, said the store was aimed astatine strengthening officers' cognition and applicable skills successful survivor-centred, rights-based and coordinated responses to GBV, including harmless referrals and post-violence care.

According to the statement, the archetypal time of the grooming addressed myths and facts astir GBV, its assorted forms, drivers, hazard factors and societal impact.

Technical sessions highlighted applicable laws and expectations of prosecutors during constabulary investigations, emphasising that the constabulary service arsenic the instauration of each case.

Officers were trained connected first-response procedures astatine scenes and constabulary stations to guarantee subsister safety, privacy, dignity and non-discrimination, arsenic good arsenic survivor-centred connection to debar re-traumatisation.

Other areas covered included due interviewing technique...