Greater Sudbury Police Service Det.-Sgt. Lee Rinaldi shed some light on local police response to intimate partner violence incidents, which the police board and city have called an ‘epidemic’
Following two local declarations classifying gender-based and intimate partner violence to be an epidemic, Greater Sudbury Police Service shed some light on how they’ve been handling it.Between 2012 and 2022, the low point was 2014, when 2,190 incidents were recorded.
There’s no easy explanation for the spike in recent years, Det.-Sgt. Lee Rinaldi told Sudbury.com, describing it as “multi-faceted.” The presentation was requested by the board following a recent spike in intimate partner violence which sparked city council and the police board to declare it to be an epidemic.
Criticism, verbal abuse, sulking, threats, withholding money, isolating, degrading treatment and various means of taking control of their partner’s lives are common tactics, Rinaldi said, adding they’ll criminally harass their partner and “won’t allow that relationship or that power and control to break.”
“Police oftentimes are a stop along the way in the process of this individual getting out of this relationship,” he said, adding that police link victims up with various agencies to help them along the way, both through the legal process and afterward. During this week’s police board meeting, member Gerry Lougheed suggested the board pass a motion in which the board advocates for additional funding to local women’s shelters to ensure nobody is turned away when they’re at capacity.
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