Law enforcement agencies will have access to domestic incident reports filed anywhere in the 57 counties outside New York City under a new Domestic Incident Report Repository announced Wednesday.
About 175,000 such domestic violence reports are filed annually by police agencies in counties on Long Island and north of New York City. The reports must be provided to the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services regardless of whether arrests or convictions result. Previously, the reports were filed chronologically and kept in paper form, but have now been scanned and are being made available electronically by the division. Officers and police dispatchers will be able to search the database by the name of victims or offenders, as well as the addresses of where reported incidents occurred. The information should allow police agencies to respond more effectively and safely to calls involving people who have been in domestic incidents in the past, according to Elizabeth Glazer, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s deputy secretary for public safety. About 125 people die in domestic violence-related incidents in New York each year, according to the state Office for Prevention of Domestic Violence.
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