Coercive Control Training
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/003160/U
Version Date: 12/05/2025
The Resourcing and Development Department have provided the following information.
- Are all your police officers who attend domestic abuse incidents (crime scenes) trained about coercive control?
All officers and contact staff have had or are going through Domestic Abuse (DA) Matters First Responder training which includes coercive control as one of its themes.
- What training courses that police officers are mandated to attend is coercive control covered in?
DA Matters First Responder as above. Additionally, Professionalising Investigation Programme (PIP), PIP2 officers have an input on coercove control in their Safeguarding week. It is also discussed in the Rape and Serious Sexual Offences (RaSSO) National Operating Model (NOM) Continued Professional Development (CPD) training and the Specialist Sexual Assault Investigators Development Programme 2 (SSAIDP) as part of the ‘Whole Story’ approach.
- Pets can be killed, harmed or threatened within domestic abuse and are often barriers for survivors leaving an abusive relationship. Does all of your coercive control training consider this aspect?
Not all the training detailed above covers harm to animals specifically however, in DA Matters First Responder training, this is discussed as a high-risk factor. All front line officers will be aware of harm to pets being a high-risk factor as it is included in the forms which officers must complete when attending any DA incidents.