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12 Thursday June 29 2017 Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi News The Star Tickets on sale NOW! ‘Change one perpetrator, and how many victims do you prevent? If one life is saved, that makes it worthwhile.’ – Police • From page 10 One family she had dealt with faced repeated violence, and were classed at high-risk of it happening again. “But the most stressful thing for them was actually housing, because they were homeless,” she said. Once they were in a home and that pressure was gone, they were able to focus on preventing the violence, she said. Ms McSkimming said three in four perpetrators in Christchurch were male, and 88 per cent were European. She said they were working to encourage people to engage with police, especially in ethnic communities and in cases of elder abuse, which she believed were under-reported. “The older generation had that attitude of we don’t talk about it, we don’t report it,” she said. The trial has been funded for three years until June 2019. Ms McSkimming said the ultimate successes would be difficult to measure: Trust built, violence reduced, and the long-term cycle of violence stopped. She said people they had worked with were more likely to call police themselves after another incident, which she considered a success. But that could mean the official figures around violence will be increasing, rather than dropping, over the trial. So to judge whether the trial was successful, they would look at statistics around convictions, serious injuries and deaths from violence, and the outcomes for families involved. For Detective Senior Sergeant Cottam, it was a personal experience early in his career that convinced him that the idea – working to prevent crime, rather than just respond to it – would work. He was interviewing a young woman who had been arrested for a string of thefts, burglaries and breaking into cars. “I sat across from her and said: “What do you want from your life?”” The woman said she didn’t want to be a criminal, and her goal was to get a job and have a family – but she couldn’t afford the training course she wanted to do, he said. “We spoke to WINZ and got her in the course. To my knowledge, she never offended again,” he said. He said that was not something that was encouraged within police at the time, as the focus was the frontline policing work. But the difference he was able to make had stayed with him. “To do that is personally more satisfying that arresting someone for murder, because it means preventing a whole lot of future crimes and victims. Arresting someone for murder does keep society safe, but it is almost too late,” he said. Being able to turn someone’s life around was the ultimate aim: The “nirvana”, he said. “Change one perpetrator, and how many victims do you prevent? If one life is saved, that makes it worthwhile.” Where to get help •If it is an emergency and you or someone you know is at risk, phone 111. •Women’s Refuge: 0800 REFUGE (0800 733 843) •Victim Support: 0800 842 846 •Family Violence Info Line: 0800 456 450 •Aviva Family Violence Services: 0800 AVIVA NOW (0800 28482 669) •Stopping Violence Services for Men & Women: 0800 478 778 •Canterbury Men’s Centre: 365 9000 or txt 022 302 4966 •Shakti Ethnic Women’s Support: 0800 117 474 •Age Concern Canterbury: 366 0903 Living with isolation and a violent partner • By Gabrielle Stuart IT WAS a normal Wednesday morning in March when Amelia’s* life changed. The 20-year-old was at home, rushing to get her daughter ready for kindy before she headed off to a course – dressed up especially nicely in preparation for job interviews. But when her then-boyfriend saw her dressed up, he ordered her to wash her make-up off, and refused to let her leave the house until she did. They were arguing in the kitchen, when he punched her in the stomach. “It winded me and I fell on the ground and he started kicking me,” she said. She had been with her boyfriend on and off for almost four years. Until then, he had threatened her and thrown things at her, but never hit her – instead he had punched the doors in their home to pieces when angry, she said. She remembered screaming for someone to help her as she lay on the floor, and hearing her daughter nearby screaming at him to stop. He stopped and left the room, and she tried to leave – but he followed her and tried to strangle her. She kicked him and fought him off, grabbed her daughter, and ran from the house. He followed them, yelling at her, dressed in just his pants, without a shirt or shoes. At that point the police arrived, called by a neighbour or passerby. If it wasn’t for the stranger calling police, she believed she would have stayed with her boyfriend, and would not have asked for help. Amelia had moved to Christchurch from the North Island to be with him, so was isolated from family and friends when he began to be more controlling. “I was getting lonely, so I depended a lot more on him,” she said. She made a statement to police and the next day was asked to come in to have photographs of her bruises taken. SUPPORT: Since Amelia was attacked by her ex-boyfriend in March, Constable Rebecca French has worked personally with her through each meeting and milestone. PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER That was where she met Constable Rebecca French from the police family harm team. At the time, she didn’t want to talk about what happened, didn’t want to go into a safehouse, and just wanted life to go back to normal – but she said the police officers weren’t “in your face”. “They asked me if I needed help, but they wouldn’t force me to take it,” she said. Over the next few months, she said Constable French was regularly in touch. Amelia was struggling to pay rent, and she had no license to drive her daughter around. Constable French set her up with driving lessons through Operation Graduate, and helped with clothing for job interviews through charity Dress For Success – even coming to the appointment to support her and give fashion advice. The support helped her make the decision to leave her exboyfriend, for her own sake and her daughter’s, Amelia said. “Because the violence wasn’t happening to (my daughter), I didn’t think it affected her, but it does,” she said. 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