Sthis morning the police commissioner of the province of Foggia and the president of the “Impegno Donna” Anti-Violence Center, Franca Dentehave renewed the “Zeus” protocol, promoted by the Central Anti-Crime Directorate of the Department of Public Security, aimed at spreading good practices throughout the provincial territory to prevent phenomena related to gender violence.
The initiative is inspired by the “Law on femicide” which establishes that “when the police commissioner issues a warning, he immediately informs the perpetrator of the crime about the services available in the area including CUAVs, family counseling centers, health services mental health and addiction services, aimed at intervening against perpetrators of domestic or gender violence”.
In fact, the main objective of the Protocol is to facilitate the recovery process, offering the cautioned person access to a support treatment aimed at improving the management of emotions, through consultancy offered by highly qualified professionals in the recovery and rehabilitation processes. .
So does the commissioner Ferdinando Rossi: “The Protocol constitutes a model of action that amplifies the effectiveness of the administrative instrument of the warning (53 warnings have been issued from January 2023 to today), provided for by law for all conduct that can lead to domestic violence and persecutory acts. The warning provision, in addition to producing deflationary effects on the criminal process, constitutes an effective deterrent and prevents the occurrence of illicit conduct to the detriment of gender victims. In fact, it intervenes on the mistreating subject even before criminally punishable conduct occurs, for which it is necessary for a relevant judicial proceeding to be established.”
“Unfortunately, interventions due to ‘code red’ are constantly increasing – adds the commissioner -. They are carried out almost daily by the operators of the flying squad, i.e. the department that constitutes the “Police Emergency Room” (from January 2023 to today, 142 red codes have been activated).
“The Zeus protocol is part of this delicate operational area and offers the warned subject to become aware of the negative value of his own conduct, offering him a rehabilitation treatment managed by a team of professionals, specialized in treating people with relational problems – adds Dente -. In fact, thanks to this tool the person warned can access, on a voluntary basis and free of charge, a path in which he has the opportunity to reflect and reconstruct, on an emotional and cognitive level, the events that led him to carry out the behaviors abusers and, therefore, avoid the recurrence of harmful attitudes. The main objective is to make the perpetrator fully aware of the violent act.”
