Executive Guidebook: Practical Approaches for LE's Response to SA

Publication Date: 2018

Publication

Agency: Office on Violence Against Women

This guidebook includes recommendations for how police departments can enhance their response to sexual assault cases. It contains guidance for agency policies and procedures, accountability tactics, training, collaboration, report writing and file maintenance, crime coding, and case management. The individual sections of the guide contain best practices that are informed by research and experience from the field which include police, prosecutors, and advocates.

---

Topic(s):

Documentation and Report Writing Investigations Policy/Protocol Development Trauma

VAWA Crime(s):

Sexual Assault

Role(s):

First Line Supervisor Investigator/Detective Patrol Officer/Deputy