1,223 complaints in 2023, or between 77 and 125 per month.
The figures for domestic violence send shivers down the spine within the public security district of the Melun Val de Seine agglomeration, the largest in the greater suburbs with 500 police officers for 32 municipalities (those of the Melun Val de agglomeration community). Seine, from Grand Paris Sud on the Seine-et-Marne side, without forgetting Brie-Comte-Robert, Chevry-Cossigny, Servon and Férolles-Attilly).
It records an increase in the number of complaints of domestic violence of 19.92% between 2021 and 2022, and of 8.4% between 2022 and 2023. Figures higher than the average observed over one year in France (+ 15% between 2021 and 2022) and in Seine-et-Marne (+ 12.6% in two years).
“Communication campaigns have freed up speech.
The victims are well taken care of by the police because everyone has been trained, including the first responders.
Investigators are now specialized in domestic violence,” says the interdepartmental directorate of public security (DIPN) of Seine-et-Marne.
In the Melun Val de Seine urban police district which has two police stations (in Melun and Moissy-Cramayel), there are twenty of them dedicated to it (including the chief and the deputy).
Since the beginning of October, they have benefited from the services of a social worker, Aurélie Orcel, one of ten working in Seine-et-Marne while another took up her position in Moissy-Cramayel in mid-January.
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