NCJ Number
94594
Journal
Michigan Police Officer Volume: 10 Issue: 1 Dated: (June 1984) Pages: 27-31
Date Published
1984
Length
5 pages
Annotation
This Michigan police training bulletin discusses the police procedure for enforcing injunctive orders in the context of domestic-disturbance calls.
Abstract
Enforcement of an existing injunctive order is advised to be an option for police action in the case of a domestic conflict where an assault has not occurred. The Michigan Domestic Abuse Law provides that two types of injunctive orders may be placed in the police file: a preliminary injunctive order, which is filed pending divorce proceedings to prevent persons named in the order from imposing any restraint on the other party during pendancy of the action; and an injunctive order, which can restrain a person from physically abusing a named person or from removing minor children from a person having legal custody. Description of the enforcement of such orders includes determining that there is a reasonable cause to believe that a valid injunctive order exists and that there is reasonable cause to believe that the subject named in the order has committed one or more violations of the restrained acts listed in the order. Specific guidance is given officers about arrival at the scene; the arrest; lodging, bond, and arraignment; and report writing.