One of the most important tasks of the police consists in preventing violence and to ensure that individuals can lead a life without being afraid of assaults. Established in 1997...
Preventing and combating domestic violence is an area that Denmark has focused on for a longer period of time, and most recently in 2014 the Ministry of Children, Gender Equality...
In Denmark, prostitution among adults has not been criminalized neither as buyer nor seller of sex. It is, however, illegal to act as a pimp, making a profit of other peoples...
In Denmark, between 360 and 475 rapes are reported annually. In addition to this are the unreported figures. Annually, it is estimated that about 2600 more incidents of rape or...
Since 2001, several studies have been conducted to dwell into the essence, causes, consequences and possible solutions of domestic violence. As a conclusion, it is now accepted...
On 28 August 2005, the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Interior of the Republic of Estonia signed the Laulasmaa declaration and as human trafficking is an important source...
Sexual offences against children is one of the priority issues in Estonian criminal policy since august 2005, when ministers of Interior and Justice stated this to be one of the...
The Ministry of Public Order and Greek Police work together to confront domestic violence in Greece. The Project Management Team for Planning the Policy against Crime (PMT-PPC) was...
A Project Management Team for Planning the Policy against Crime was set up at the Ministry of Public Order in January 2002. The team is chaired by the Head of Public Security...
Back in December 2001, Slovenia set up an Interdepartmental Working Group for the fight against trafficking in persons (IWG, and in February 2002 a National Coordinator was...