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Database as Mandatory Reporting to the Attorney General’s Office on Victim and Offender (No official name)

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Administrative data source
Šalis: Cyprus
Temos:
Violence
Types of GBV:
Intimate Partner Violence
The data was collected in 2013 and may not accurately represent the present situation. The examples from the United Kingdom were published before the country's withdrawal from the European Union on 31 January 2020.

Types of GBV

  • Intimate Partner Violence
  • Rape
  • Sexual Assault (excl. rape)
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Stalking

The law in Cyprus covers intimate partner violence by the law on violence in the family whose scope is limited to violence occurring between cohabiting partners

Purpose of data collection

  • Monitoring
  • Ensure victim protection from perpetrator
  • Professional indemnity
  • Contribute to other organisation database
Other purpose: 

Mandatory to report to Attorney's General's Office (family violence).

Data available on

Victim

Background information

  • Age
  • Sex
  • Nationality
  • ID
  • Name
  • Ethnicity
  • Marital status
  • Dependants
Other: 

Education level, place of residence, employment status, type of violence reported (physical, psychological, sexual), source of referral, frequency of abuse, if victim requested support and from which service, development of the case, criminal investigation, whether there was a police report.

Relationship with perpetrator

Yes
Type of relationship: 

Family member (spouse, mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter, grandparent, grandchild, person living under the same roof)

Repeatedly suffering from GBV

Yes

Characteristics

Storage System

  • In paper form
  • Electronically (single files)
  • Electronically (database)

Frequency of updating

Weekly

Quality assurance process

Social workers are responsible for reporting a domestic violence case within seven days to the Attorney General's Office. According to the person responsible, the Social Welfare Services comply fully with the mandatory reporting system.

Comparability

  • Geographical
  • Over time
  • None

Timeliness

Additional information: 

The Social Welfare Services expressed difficulties in complying with the seven day period due to work overload and a need to prioritize cases. This does not mean that they do not undertake the case, but that the report may not be sent to the Attorney General's Office by the seven-day deadline.

Current developments

No plans.

Relation with third parties

Reported to third parties
Yes
Name of organisation: 
Attorney General's Office
Used by third parties: 
No

Reporter

  • Victim
  • Witness
  • Offender

Website

Link to website

Metadata

Organisation: 
Social Welfare Services, Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance
Sector:
Social protection
Geographical area: 
National