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===Information for complainants=== | ===Information for complainants=== | ||
If you have suffered family violence, call the police; nothing will happen until you do. | If you have suffered family violence, call the police; nothing will happen until you do. Depending on the situation, the police may arrest the abuser and may take him or her into <span class="noglossary">custody</span>. He or she will stay there until a judge is able to speak to him or her. Most of the time, he or she will be released from <span class="noglossary">custody</span> until his or her trial date following this <span class="noglossary">brief</span> hearing, and the <span class="noglossary">release</span> will be on specific terms and conditions set out in a document called a ''Recognizance'' or an ''Undertaking''. | ||
It's important that you call the police right away, or at least fairly soon after the violence. The police will sometimes refuse to take <span class="noglossary">action</span> against an abuser on the ground that the complaint was made out of malice or a desire for revenge because of the breakdown of the relationship. | It's important that you call the police right away, or at least fairly soon after the violence. The police will sometimes refuse to take <span class="noglossary">action</span> against an abuser on the ground that the complaint was made out of malice or a desire for revenge because of the breakdown of the relationship. | ||