GLOBAL DATABASE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLSCOUNTRY-PROFILEDENMARKMEASURESGUIDELINES: INVESTIGATION AND LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
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Guidelines: Investigation and Legal Proceedings
Type of Measure
Services > Justice > Protocols and guidelines
Form of Violence
Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence
Year
2007
Brief Description

The Director of Public Prosecutions has issued guidelines regarding investigation and legal proceedings in cases about domestic violence. One of the purposes of these guidelines is to ensure that it is not up to the individual victim of domestic violence, whether or not the police and prosecution, should take action against these acts of violence by conducting a police investigation and prosecution.

Source of Information
Response of the Government of Denmark to the questionnaire on violence against women
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