00:00According to acting commis
00:02junior benjamin, most of
00:04the country at this time
00:07drugs and altercations. N
00:10uh domestic. So the fact
00:14at 31% decrease in murd
00:18certainly I would see I w
00:21all the areas that we ha
00:24in, um, in homicide and b
00:28domestic and in all the d
00:32is making an appeal to p
00:34themselves in domestic s
00:37to escalate into violen
00:40fatalities. We want to en
00:43first of all, seek help.
00:46these things happen. Neve
00:48police service, we are go
00:51have to do by going out t
00:54address this matter. We a
00:58public that, you know, if
01:00you hear or you see something
01:02in terms of domestic violence,
01:04we have a responsibility to
01:05share that information with
01:06the police so that we can
01:08also seek to address these
01:10problems. According to Benjamin,
01:11the victim and witness support
01:13unit of the D T P S can be of
01:15assistance here as he outlines
01:17that it is not only reactive,
01:19but proactive as well. The
01:20commissioner indicates that a
01:22review of restraining orders
01:24is being undertaken. We are
01:26looking at all the orders that
01:27has been, um, come that come
01:30out from the court. And what
01:32I've done is to ask the
01:34divisional commanders to look at
01:37those orders and even, um, ever
01:40so often check with the victims to
01:43make sure that everything is okay.
01:45Because sometimes if we can just
01:47have that conversation, we can
01:49always, you know, find out whether
01:52things are, you know, is going okay.
01:54And if things are changing and
01:55if not, before it happened, we
01:57can be able to have some
01:59intervention beforehand.
02:00Commissioner Benjamin underscores
02:02that if perpetrators are to be
02:04monitored through mechanisms such
02:06as ankle bracelets, those
02:07stipulations must come from the
02:10court. Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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