BEDFORD – The Lawrence County Coalition Against Domestic Violence will host a free training on September 4, 2024, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with lunch at noon. The training will occur at the Stonegate Arts and Education Center in the Black Box Room at 931 15th St., Bedford, Indiana 47421.
The training will cover best practices for law enforcement response to domestic violence calls, the correlation between domestic violence and sexual assault, domestic violence offenders and the felonious assault or killing of law enforcement, the crime of strangulation, the correlation between domestic violence and animal cruelty, an update on Indiana laws, lethality assessment screening, and civil liability for law enforcement.
The training will be led by Dottie Davis, BS, a retired Deputy Chief from the Fort Wayne Police Department with 32 years of service, and Caryn Burton, who has a BA in psychology and communications from Butler University and an MS in Counseling. Davis specializes in Crisis Intervention Team and Lethality Assessment Program policy development and is a recognized trainer in suicide prevention and law enforcement practices. Burton has extensive experience in victim services and has been with the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence since 2007, initially as a training coordinator and now as a homicide reduction strategies coordinator.
