Policy Text
FLORIDA CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT
03-01
ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTIVE
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EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES VICTIM – A PERSON WHOM A CRIME
WAS COMMITTED. SOME VICTIMS
CERTAIN CASES INVOLVING DOMESTIC SUFFER PHYSICAL INJURY OR PROPERTY
VIOLENCE AND/OR THE VIOLATION OF AN
DAMAGE, AND SOME HAVE
INJUNCTION/RESTRAINING ORDER MAY PHYSCHOLOGICAL INJURY OR BOTH.
POSSESS EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES
VICTIMS HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS IN
WHICH WOULD MAKE A PROBABLE CAUSE FLORIDA. OTHERS WHO CAN CLAIM
PHYSICAL ARREST UNREASONABLE. IN SUCH
THESE RIGHTS ARE THE VICTIM’S
CASES, AN ARREST SHOULD NOT BE MADE, BUT PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN IF THE
THE OFFICER SHALL CLEARLY INDICATE IN HIS
VICTIM IS A MINOR, THE LAWFUL
REPORT THE REASON(S) FOR NOT ARRESTING REPRESENTATIVE OF THE VICTIM OR
THE ALLEGED PERPETRATOR.
THE VICTIM’S PARENT GUARDIAN IF
THE VICTIM IS A MINOR, AND THE NEXT
EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES MAY INCLUDE,
OF KIN OF A HOMICIDE VICTIM. AS A
BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: VICTIM OF A CRIME, YOU HAVE THE
FOLLOWING RIGHTS.
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THAT IT CANNOT BE ESTABLISHED
THAT THE PERPETRATOR WAS SERVED 1. EITHER YOU OR THE STATE
WITH THE RESTRAINING ORDER. IN ATTORNEY’S OFFICE WITH YOUR
SUCH CASES, THE OFFICER SHALL CONSENT, HAVE STANDING TO ASSERT
SERVE THE ORDER TO THE SPOUSE AND ANY LEGAL RIGHTS OF A CRIME VICTIM
ORDER HIM/HER TO LEAVE. AS PROVIDED BY THE LAW OR THE
FLORIDA CONSTITTUTION.
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THE REPORT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS
2. IN SOME CASES, VICTIMS (OR THEIR
MADE SUBSTANTIALLY AFTER THE
RELATIVES WHERE THE VICTIM IS
INCIDENT OCCURRED, AND THE VICTIM
DECEASED) MAY BE ELIGLIBLE FOR
WAS NOT KIDNAPED OR OTHERWISE
FINANCIAL COMPENSATION FROM THE
RESTRAINED BY REASONABLE FEAR
STATE OF FLORIDA. INFORMATION
FROM REPORTING THE INCIDENT IN A
REGARDING ELIGIBIITY MAY BE
TIMELY FASHION.
OBTAINED FROM THE STATE
• ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, LOCAL WITNESS
PROBABLE CAUSE CANNOT BE
COORDINATION OFFICE (WHERE
ESTABLISHED.
AVAILABLE), A LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY OR FROM THE BREAU OF
VICTIM RIGHTS
CRIMES COMPENSATION, OFFICE OF THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL 1-800-226-6667.
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IF YOU ARE A VICITM OF A CRIME OR A
WITNESS BECAUSE YOU HAVE SEEN,
3. THE RIGHT TO RECEIVE INFORMATION
HEARD, OR KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT A
ON AVAILABLE CRISIS INTERVENTION
CRIME THAT HAS BEEN COMMITTED,
SERVICES AND LOCAL COMMUNITY
YOU ARE IMPORTANT TO THE CASE.
SRVICES TO INCLUDE COUNSELING,
YUR TESTIMONY MAY BE NECESSRY TO
SHELTER, LEGAL ASSISTANCE, OR
ESTABLISH THE FACTS.
OTHER TYPES OF HELP, DEPENDING ON
UNDERSTANDABLY, YOU MIGHT FEEL
THE PARTICULAR CIRCUSATANCES.
ANXIOUS ABOUT TESTIFYING IN COURT.
TELEHONE NUBERS OF THESE SERVICES
HOWEVER, WITHOUT YOUR TESTIMONY
ARE PROVIDED AT THE END OF THIS
THE DEFENDANT MIGHT GO
BROCHURE.
UNPUNISHED.
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FLORIDA CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT
03-01
ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTIVE