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23 December, 2015

Lagos Govt, Police Move Against Domestic Violence



Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DS­VRT) has entered into a partnership with the Nigeria Police on the best strategies to adopt in handling issues relating to such crimes.

The partnership was reached when DSVRT pre­sented copies of sexual of­fences related laws such as the Child’s rights Act 2007; Prevention Against Domes­tic Violence Law 2007, and the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011 to the Police to familiarise with at the Lagos State Police Command head­quarters in Ikeja.

The ceremony was attend­ed by the state Commission­er of Police, Mr Fatai Ajani Owoseni, along with some Deputy Commissioners of Police and other top officers.

In a statement issued and signed by DSVRT Coordina­tor, Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, the provision of the laws was one of the various initia­tives adopted to improve the capacity of the police in re­sponding to reports of rape, defilement, domestic vio­lence, child abuse, maltreat­ment and neglect.

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