Intimate partner violence is a serious concern in Canada. Approximately every five days, a woman is killed by their current or former intimate partner (Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention
Initiative, 2018). Research previously conducted by the Centre for Public Safety and Criminal Justice Research at the University of the Fraser Valley identified that, in 2016, the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police (RCMP) detachments operating across the province of British Columbia received around 8,500 founded calls for service involving intimate partner violence. This equated to a rate of approximately 17 calls per 10,000 people (Cohen, McCormick, Davies, & Neudecker, 2017).
Centre for Public Safety and Criminal Justice Research
