DECEMBER 2025
Global Campaign Ending Digital Violence Promoting Respect
The Royal Commission into Family Violence found that more needed to be done to ensure predominant aggressors are accurately identified and that situations where victim survivors are misidentified as perpetrators can be appropriately rectified. It specifically mentioned the importance of amending LEAP processes to facilitate the removal of the name of a person wrongly identified. 5 The Royal Commission reflected what it had heard from many sources about the negative consequences of misidentification for victim survivors and the additional risks victim survivors from marginalised groups face of being misidentified. It made one recommendation that directly related to the accurate identification of predominant aggressors and the issue of misidentification: Recommendation 41 Victoria Police amend the Victoria Police Code of Practice for the Investigation of Family Violence to ensure it provides suitable guidance on identifying family violence primary aggressors within 12 months]. This includes: procedures for amending [LEAP] when a service provider or a Support and Safety Hub [now known as The Orange Door network] subsequently informs Victoria Police that a person is not the primary aggressor. Hello Orange Door (email sent 13/09/2020)
Regarding your recommendations, if I had been able to help myself I would not have needed to ask for help from The Orange Door, the police or any other service providers. My husband has been using the police and the courts to carry out his abuse for many many years. I have now secured employment but even that has been compromised by the domestic 'violence' situation. I was not traumatised by the situation until the police and the courts enabled and justified the aggressive actions of my estranged husband, a man I thought I had escaped and have not seen for six years. COVID-19 and my inability to get any help from government services have been a King Hit. It seems to me that in cases of non-physical violence, the Police and the DV services either have no understanding of the Family Law Act or I have been so traumatised that I have been unable to communicate. Every request has been met with we
Maggie Marriott
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