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Philip Chapman is the director of the Male Room in Nelson, which provides temporary, single-night accomodation for men who have been removed from their homes under five-day police safety orders. Sergeant John Maxwell is the Family Violence Intervention co-ordinator for the Nelson Police.
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We need all over NZ….as men are removed from their home as they are considered “Potential” prepetrators…even if sometimes they are victims…Police removes them from their homes.(So unfair)
Comment by kumar — Tue 8th October 2013 @ 12:36 pm
Hmmmm … not sure how this has been allowed considering the official Police opposition to the establishment of one in West Auckland a few years ago ? The link below (in particular posts 14 and 20) spells it out clearly.
http://menz.org.nz/2011/womans-refuge-for-men/
Comment by golfa — Tue 8th October 2013 @ 2:39 pm
Well done Philip!
Comment by Allan Harvey — Tue 8th October 2013 @ 9:12 pm
Can you remove the word “Violent” from the heading of this thread please?
Comment by kumar — Wed 16th October 2013 @ 2:29 pm
This post is reporting on a Radio New Zealand interview which uses that subject heading.
In the context of Protection Orders, a man is officially “violent” if a woman says he is (or might be).
Get with the program kumar – write out 1000 lines:
“Women never lie about abuse”.
Comment by JohnPotter — Wed 16th October 2013 @ 7:53 pm