To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training her Department provides to immigration officials in Northern Ireland to identify victims of domestic violence.
This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.
Answered on
9 July 2015
Border Force and Immigration Enforcement have established dedicated programmes of activity to strengthen officers’ safeguarding awareness and the capability to detect potentially vulnerable people encountered. Officers working in Northern Ireland have all received safeguarding and human trafficking training. This training includes behavioural indicator awareness which is used by officers to identify individuals who may be in a stressful or vulnerable situation as a result of different forms of abuse including domestic violence. If potential domestic violence victims are identified then they are referred to the Police Service Northern Ireland and Social Services.