Executive Director for Ark Foundation, has entreated the Inspector-General of Police to elevate the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit to a Directorate.

According to Dr Angela Dwamena-Aboagye, this will facilitate the work of DOVVSU.

DOVVSU is responsible for handling cases of domestic violence in the country. It has the capacity to apprehend and prosecute culprits engaged in domestic violence.

Speaking on JoyNews’ The Law, Sunday, May 30, Dwamena-Aboagye contended that there’s no police unit that receives the number of cases that DOVVSU does, however, efforts in seeking its elevation to a directorate, have proven futile.

“There’s no police unit that receives the number of police cases that DOVVSU does and yet, they (police authorities) are not willing to make that a directorate for it to be more effective in doing its work,” she stressed.

Dr Dwamena-Aboagye, thus, charged the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to advise the government and the IGP, on behalf of all advocates against domestic violence, to grant the request for DOVVSU to be granted directorate status.

“The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection needs to know that DOVVSU secretariat needs a lot of help because that’s the secretariat that’s coordinating all of these things, otherwise, we go back to square one,” she said.