Surge in DV technology abuse

McKenna said the police were invited to a family violence every three minutes in NSW.

Compelling control was held in NSW on 1 July 2024. The NSW Crime Statistics and Research Office said there were 224 compelling control incidents notified from nine months to 2025.

Sixty percent of them included harassment, monitoring or monitoring, the most common control behaviors group, followed by threat or intimidation, financial abuse and shame, humiliating or humiliating.

Approximately 40 percent of the events were the only crime recorded.

In an example, McKenna said that a child gave a recording device with a recorder to watch and record the victim, and in another case, a guilty children operates for home tour.

“We saw monitoring devices and spy software using children’s toys,” he said.

McKenna said that the prisoners were concerned about the fact that the prisons contacted victims from prison, using the tablets provided in prison or missed their mobile phones. He said that these criminals were later accused of new crimes.

Technology has made it easier for the perpetrators to monitor, research and harass the victims, but it made it easier for the police to prosecute them, but contributed to the increase in the accusations.

“They leave a mark for us to follow, especially in cases where there is a contactless order of violence. We just need to be aware of this. So we encourage people to stand out.”

“Some of the main control behaviors are very easy to determine that they are electronically documented,” he said. McKenna said that new challenging control laws are related to behaviors such as police ‘love bomb and sacrifice accusation or other emotional manipulation forms.

“If you receive any harassment or communication that you are not comfortable, we encourage us to inform us to investigate it,” he said.

On Saturday, high -risk domestic violence criminals were hugged for a four -day three -month Blitz, aiming at Amarok Xi. The police identified 669 violations and carried out 1590 bail compliance control and 12,468 Domestic Violence Order Adaptation Controls.

Directed by the domestic and family violence registry, Amarok includes civil servants from the team of high -risk criminals of each region as well as expert officers from Raptor Squad, Youth Command, Traffic and Highway Patrol Command and Police Transportation Command.

When Forerunner Previously, the Family Metropolitan region team leader detective sergeant Townsend, Amarok Raids’e previously joined the police, domestic violence high -risk criminal team team’s team “the worst of the worst” said.

“Usually the criminals requested by the commands of the police region, but they cannot find them, so they send us a job to find them,” he said.

“Most of the police are known, they have convictions before, and the reason they can’t be found is good in hiding.”

The NSW police have developed the application of Empower you designed to document abuse and secretly access to support services. He made about 30,000 downloads. Police can use it to blame the evidence.