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State introduces solutions that work: Justice Min on anti-violence act

We have introduced solutions that work in practice, said the Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro on Monday at the conference summing up 100 days of the so-called anti-domestic violence act. The data presented by the ministry shows that the regulations in question enabled the isolation of perpetrators of domestic violence from their victims in almost 800 cases.

Zbigniew Ziobro was accompanied by the deputy head of the Ministry of Justice, Marcin Romanowski, who was responsible for preparing the act.

The act, in force since November last year, aims for more effective protection of victims of domestic violence against the perpetrator. It introduced a separate, quick procedure in cases when a person who uses violence is required to leave the flat shared with the victim and receives a restraining order. Under the new regulations, the police are required to regularly check whether a person subject to such an order complies with the sanction imposed on them.

“This is a very important act, especially for women. In the vast majority of cases, it is them who become victims of violence. It is also beneficial for children, because children often witness this dramatic course of domestic attacks that took place in Poland in recent years,” said Minister Ziobro.

He highlighted that women often complained about the lack of proper state support and were left alone in the hands of the perpetrators.

“During these less than a hundred days, restraining orders and injunctions were applied in 776 cases, in almost 97 percent these are orders imposed on men, which shows how much women needed this protection,” said deputy minister Romanowski.

According to the data presented by the ministry, in 564 cases an order to leave an apartment was combined with a restraining order, in 128 – only a ban on approaching the apartment, and in 84 – solely an order to leave it.

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