Domestic Violence Dispatcher Training

USM Comprehensive Dispatch/Communications Domestic Violence Training

WHEN: Feb. 23,2012, 1:00-5:00 pm

WHERE: USM Gorham Campus,

Hastings Formal Lounge, Hastings Hall, 52 University Way

COST: Free

PRESENTERS:

Jen Annis, EPIC (Enhanced Police Intervention Collaboration) Advocate & Training Coordinator

Faye Luppi, Esq., Project Director, Violence Intervention Partnership

Alex Pufhal, Public Safety Communications Coordinator, University of Southern Maine Public Safety

TRAINING OBJECTIVES:

1) Outline effective communications/dispatch in domestic/dating violence cases

2) Identify factors for victim and officer safety

3) identify ways to preserve 911 call and use to successfully prosecute offender post- Crawford

4) identify signs of strangulation victims

5) identify stalking tactics

6) Technoloy and its role in DV and stalking incidents

7) identify elements that make a Protection Order valid and due full faith and credit

8) update on Risk Assessment and bail commissioner issues

9) information on USM Safe Campus protocols/resources (for both USM Dispatch and of interest to other towns where students live)

To register visit http://www.usm.maine.edu/police