Footnotes for State Police Domestic Violence Training Laws

1. Alaska requires domestic violence training to include training on legislation, crime, and service providers. This includes techniques to maximize victim and officer safety, investigation and management of domestic violence cases, report writing, shelters, and victim notice.
2. California requires domestic violence training to include enforcement of criminal laws, availability of civil remedies, availability of community help, protection of victim, techniques for minimum violence. It also includes citizen arrest, report writing, diversion, tenancy issues, law enforcement impact on children, verification and enforcement of court orders, citation and release policies.
3. Connecticut requires domestic violence training to include criminal law enforcement, techniques for minimizing violence, organizations providing assistance, prosecution procedures, and court orders.
4. District of Columbia requires training on nature and causes of intrafamily offenses; legal rights and remedies; services available; legal duties of police officers; and techniques for handling intrafamily offenses.
5. Florida requires training in violent crime prevention and investigation; victim assistance and rights. Domestic violence training includes law enforcement duties in domestic violence cases; rights of victims; future violence; impact of arrest; special needs of children at scene, verification of injunctions, emergency aid, and working with uncooperative victims.
6. Idaho training on domestic violence includes stress on arrest responses, availability of community responses, and protection of victim.
7. Illinois training on domestic violence includes techniques for immediate response to and investigation of domestic violence cases.
8. If state funded, Indiana training includes court order duties, guidelines for arrest techniques, information about domestic violence incidence, legal rights of victims, how to collect evidence, legal consequences of domestic violence, impact on children, verifying orders, emergency aid, landlord concerns.
9. Kentucky entry and in-service training on domestic violence includes dynamics of domestic violence, effects on adults and children, legal remedies, risk issues, model protocols, available resources, and reporting requirements.
10. Massachusetts training for domestic violence includes stress on enforcement of criminal laws, availability of civil remedies and community resources, and protection of the victim. Domestic violence experts in service delivery shall be used in the training.
11. Minnesota crimes of violence training includes how best to meet victim needs, extent and cause of crimes of violence, identification of crimes of violence and patterns of violent behavior, and culturally responsive ways to deal with victims and perpetrators.
12. Missouri entry training on domestic violence includes investigation and management of domestic violence cases and report writing. Subtopics include physical and sexual abuse, child fatalities, child neglect, interviewing children and perpetrators, nature of domestic violence, officer safety, victim and family members safety, legal rights and remedies, services available, and state law.
13. Nebraska requires domestic violence training to include instruction on the problems of domestic abuse, procedures to deal with these problems, court orders, and services available.
14. New Jersey entry training for domestic violence includes impact of domestic violence on society, the dynamics of domestic violence, statutory and case law, necessary elements of a protection order, AG or court policies procedures, use of community resources, support services, available sanctions and treatment options. Police domestic violence crisis teams may include non-police personnel such as social workers or clergy.
15. New York agency policies and procedures shall provide for training in domestic violence on procedures for intake and recording of victim statements on standardized incident reports and the need for immediate intervention, including arrest and detention and notice of rights.
16. New York state police policies follow similar requirements.
17. Ohio requires entry training to include handling of domestic violence and related offenses, court orders and consent agreements, recent amendments to law, and notice of rights.
18. Rhode Island mandatory training law is not applicable to Providence. Rhode Island training on domestic violence includes nature, extent and causes; rights and remedies; services and facilities; techniques to minimize injury; and police duties.
19. South Dakota domestic violence training consists of enforcement of criminal laws, availability of community resources, and protection of victims.
20. Texas domestic violence training includes documentation of injuries through written reports, video or camera recording, and victim statement record.
21. Washington training on domestic violence includes stress on enforcement of criminal laws, availability of community resources, and protection of the victim. It also includes training on the extent and prevalence of domestic violence, the importance of criminal justice intervention, techniques to minimize injury, investigation and interviewing techniques, evidence gathering and report writing, assistance to victims and children, and liability.
22. Washington’s non-mandatory in-service training includes techniques foe minimizing injury, and review of domestic violence laws.
23. Wisconsin domestic violence training includes emergency detention standards and procedures.
24. Wyoming domestic violence training includes information about the problems of domestic abuse, procedures to deal with those problems, the relevant law, and services available.