The police intervention has been a crucial step for women victims of gender violence to take the step of reporting in Lanzarote. Of the 125 complaints received by the Arrecife judicial district in the first three months of the year, the majority (116) were made through police officers.
Women victims of gender violence in Lanzarote do not report on their own. Only one of them appeared before the court. The rest did so through police reports with a complaint from the victim (69), by direct police intervention (36) or, to a lesser extent, by police report with a complaint from a family member (eleven).
Complaints due to an injury report or by the assistance services were only eight. Likewise, no family member directly reported the events without police intervention.
According to data from the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), 42% of the complaints are filed by women born outside of Spain and 58% by Spanish women.
However, 26.4% of the women victims have given up on the process before ratifying the complaint. According to data from the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), 16 Spanish women and 17 foreign women abandoned the system before continuing with the complaint.
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