1. Interrogation of offender
2. Attitude of the interrogator towards the offender
3. Notification to the public prosecutor
4. Placing in care
5. Following a responsibility program
Interrogation of the offender (1)
• Model of interrogation
• At the police station
• Family situation: together for how long, children, interrupted
relationship, divorce,...
• Explanation for his behaviour (physical, psychological,
economical and sexual violence)
Interrogation of the offender (2)
• Are the children witnesses of the violence?
• How does he sees the relationship in the future?
• Is he willing to (temporarily) leave the house?
• Is he willing to follow a responsibility program?
Attitude interrogator towards offender
• See offender as a person with different roles: father, son,
employee, partner, and so on
• Give confidence during interrogation
• Find a form of solidarity / connection; starting the
interrogation from that form
• Reprimand on physical, psychological, economical and
sexual violence
Placing in care
• Offender of violence can promise to leave the home to the
police or, in case of appearance, to the office of the public
prosecutor
• Offender of violence gets conditions imposed on him at his
release by the examining magistrate