Duties of police officers

(1) A police officer shall respond to every complaint or report alleging domestic violence whether or not the person making the complaint or the report is the victim. (2) It shall be the duty of a police officer responding to a domestic violence complaint– (a) to complete a domestic violence report which shall from part of a National Domestic Violence Register to be maintained by the Commissioner of Police; and (b) to forward a copy of that domestic violence report to each of the Magistrate’s Court and Family Court having jurisdiction over the district in which the complaint of domestic violence occurred. Schedule II. (3) A domestic violence report shall be in the form prescribed as “Form 5” of Schedule II and shall include but not be limited to– (a) the name of the parties; (b) the relationship and sex of the parties; 32 (c) information relating to the history of domestic violence between the parties; (d) the date and time the complaint was received; (e) the type of the abuse and the weapon used, if any.