## (5) Measures to Accommodate Victims' Special Needs

The police promote measures to accommodate the characteristics of the victims as follows.

## Diagram 5-16 Measures to Accommodate Victims' Special Needs

Victims of Sexual Crimes

The police strive to take the point of view of victims of sexual crimes in their response in order to reduce the psychological burden borne by victims, and are promoting the following measures:

Maintaining Consultation and Counseling Systems

• Establishment of specialized consultation telephone lines such as “Dial 110 Sex Crimes” as well as consultation rooms.

Enhancing Investigation System

• Putting in place sexual crime investigation instruction officers, and assigning female police officers as sexual crime investigators

• Enhancing female investigators specializing in sexual crimes and education and training for male police officers

• Maintaining equipment for gathering of sexual crime evidence, including items such as spare clothes and all the necessary tools for collecting evidence

Financial Support

• Support for the costs of inspection and emergency contraception after sexual victimization

Victims of Boryokudan crime are often uneasy about reprisals or harassment from Boryokudans as a result of consulting the police. For this reason, the police are promoting following measures for untying victim’s insecurity and encouraging victims to proactively report crimes.

Maintaining Consultation and Counseling Systems on Boryokudan

• Establishment of consultation telephone lines.

• Providing victim consultation in line with relevant organizations and groups including Prefectural violence-expulsion movement promotion center, bar association, etc.

Support for Civil Action

• Support such as providing information on civil action against Boryokudans.

Share of Police Facilities

• Providing police facilities that victims can use as a place to recover from damage

Implementing Measures to Prevent Danger

• Strengthening patrols around the home or workplace of the victims and witnesses

Victims of Spousal Violence and Stalking

• Necessary assistance in order to protect victims and prevent occurrences of harm by cooperating with the Spousal Violence Counseling and Support Center (consultation and guidance to prevent crimes, and warning to the offenders)

## V ictims of Juvenile Crimes

The following particulars are reported only for the victims of physical crime (murder, robbery resulting in death or injury, and rape) and serious traffic accidents.

• Status of Investigation up to the arrest of the suspect

• The address and name of the juvenile suspect placed under arrest or taken into custody or that of the suspect’s guardian

• The Public Prosecutor’s Office or Family Court prosecuting the juvenile suspect, and the outcome of the proceedings

## V ictims of Traffic Accidents

## V ictims of Boryokudan

Providing Information Regarding the Systems

• Instructions in cooperation with the Traffic Safety Activity Promotion Centers nationwide regarding insurance demands and loss compensation systems, victim support and relief systems, the basic systems of settlements, arbitration, and litigation procedures in response to the request of victims

Providing Information Regarding the Assailants

• Providing information in response to inquiries regarding the appointed dates for taking opinions related to the administrative handling of the offending party and its results

Promoting Understanding of Driver’s License Holders of to the Mentality of the Victims

• Utilizing videos featuring traffic accident victims and testimonials written by victims in the training of drivers who have had their licenses suspended

• Implementation of lectures given by victims in the training of drivers who have had their licenses suspended