California Penal Code Section 13519 requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to establish guidelines and training for law enforcement's response to domestic violence. This report prescribes those guidelines and the training curriculum required for recruit and in-service officers. Overall, California legislation pertinent to domestic violence addresses it as a serious crime and assures victims the maximum protection from abuse that the law and those who enforce it can provide. The guidelines presented are under the topical categories of enforcement of laws, felony arrest, misdemeanor arrest, private person's arrest, reporting, restraining/protective orders, tenancy, victim assistance, seizure of firearms, and officer safety. The training curriculum consists of the following topics and hours of instruction for each topic: overview of domestic violence, 1.5 hours; legislative intent/POST guidelines, 1.0 hour; enforcement of laws, 1.5 hours; court orders, 1.0 hour; tenancy, 0.5 hours; documenting domestic violence incidents, 0.5 hours; victim assistance and referral, 0.5 hours; and practical application/student evaluation, 1.5 hours. A total of 8 hours is required for instruction. A 21- item bibliography and the texts of relevant California law.

Penal Code Section 13519 requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to establish guidelines and training for law enforcement's response to domestic violence. This publication prescribes those guidelines required for recruit and in-service officers. The guidelines are deliberately brief and intended to be elaborated upon by law enforcement administrators and complemented by the training course curricula.

This book is dedicated to all the Police Officers who have given their lives in the line of duty while responding to Domestic Violence calls and to all the children, women, men and elderly who fall victim to Domestic Violence every day. Most stories are horrific and brutal, while other cases lead toward that outcome. I hope this training book Curriculum will explain some of the reasons Domestic Violence happens, and some solutions that may help in preventing such acts of violence from occurring to you or others, and for possibly saving one's life. This book is also a great training curriculum for any law enforcement agency.

California Penal Code Section 13519 requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to establish guidelines and training for law enforcement's response to domestic violence. These guidelines have been updated as a result of Assembly Bill 818 which made several significant changes to laws affecting law enforcement procedures for handling missing person cases. It prescribes those guidelines and the training curriculum required for recruit and in-service officers and dispatchers. The thrust is that law enforcement be more sensitive and responsive in handling missing persons cases involving both adults and children.