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Vallejo police roll out lethality‑assessment plan and resource card; advocates and a survivor urge local access and coordination
Summary
VPD described a new domestic‑violence response that uses a 10‑question lethality assessment to connect high‑risk victims to advocates immediately, and said it will issue a revised resource card and QR code; advocates and a survivor asked for local referral pathways and faster response times.
Vallejo Police presented an "enhanced response" to domestic violence that pairs a lethality‑assessment protocol with upgraded referral pathways and a new resource card, while local advocates and a survivor urged better local capacity and faster response times.
Lieutenant Josh Catham, who leads investigations, said the department has piloted a lethality assessment — about 10 questions used to gauge danger — so that patrol officers can, when indicated, place victims on the phone with an advocate immediately instead of days later. "Part of implementing that is a 2‑day training for a select number of people to then bring it back to the Police Department to train the entire staff," Catham said.
Catham described other steps: advanced officer training already delivered in January and February, a nearly finalized domestic‑violence…
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