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Same Sex Domestic Abuse Survey

We are committed to 'Getting personal with Our Communities' and it is important that we find out what you think about the police and the service that we provide.

By completing this survey you will help us to tailor our service to help build confidence and trust between the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender community and Leicestershire Constabulary.

Rest assured that all your comments and feedback will be treated in the strictest confidence and will only be used to help us to improve our service to those people who have experienced domestic abuse.

What is Domestic Abuse?

Any incident of threatening behaviour, violence or abuse (emotional, financial, psychological, physical or sexual) between adults who are or have been intimate partners or family members, regardless of gender or sexual orientation.

Have you ever experienced domestic abuse?

How long ago is it since the incident happened?

What did you experience? (tick all that apply)

Was the person responsible?

and were these..

Who did you tell?

Was the incident reported to the police?

How was the incident reported to the police?

Service provided by Police Officers and Police Staff

Did the police officers and police staff who dealt with you:

Listen to what you had to say?

Treat you politely?

Appear to take the matter seriously?

Make the effort to understand the nature of your enquiry?

Are you satisfied, dissatisfied or neither with the way you were treated by the police officers and police staff who dealt with you?
and is that...

Overall Service

Considering the overall service you received from the police, from the moment you reported the incident to the point at which the investigation was concluded (or to date if the investigation is still continuing)

To what extent were you reassured by the overall service you received from the police in dealing with the incident

Prior to this incident what was your overall opinion of the police?

As a result of your contact with the police on this occasion, have you now....?

Taking the whole experience into account, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the service provided by the police in this incident?
and is that...

Would you feel discouraged from reporting any future similar incidents to the police?

Barriers to reporting the incident to the Police

If the incident was not reported to the police, consider the possible barriers that prevented you in doing so.

What stopped your reporting the incident to the Police?

What improvements could the Police make to improve confidence in reporting domestic abuse

If Considering your own experience of domestic abuse, and the service you received from the police, what could be done better to encourage people to report domestic abuse in the future

What could be done better?

Equality of Service Monitoring

The following details would enable us to monitor any differences in satisfaction between groups of people. It would, therefore, be useful to us if you could complete this section.

Are you...

Do you identify yourself as transgender?

What age were you on your last birthday?

How do you identify your sexual orientation?

What is your ethnic group?

Are you Asian, Black, Chinese, of a mixed background, White or of another ethnic group?
And is that....

The Disability Discrimination Act defines a person as having a disability if he or she â??has a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day to day activitiesâ??.

Do you have such a disability?

Leicestershire Constabulary is keen to improve the service it provides. Would you be willing to take part in any future Leicestershire Police research, such as focus groups?

If you would be willing to be involved in future consultation please enter your details below:
We will only use these details for consultation purposes

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey. All the information that you have provided will be treated in confidence.

Details of the results of this survey will be published on our website, but if in the meantime you have any comments or observations relating to this survey please feel free to use the "Tell us what you think of our website" option on our website.