ＤＶ検挙８７００件、初の減少　コロナで潜在化懸念―警察庁

　昨年１年間に警察が検挙した配偶者などパートナーからの暴力（ＤＶ）事案は前年比３８３件減の８７７８件だったことが４日、警察庁のまとめで分かった。減少は初めて。同庁は新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大で、家族以外との接触機会が減ったことによる被害の潜在化が懸念されるとして、「情報の積極的な収集に努める」としている。
　ＤＶの検挙件数は社会的な関心の高まりや、同居する恋人間の暴力も対象とするＤＶ防止法改正（２０１４年施行）を背景に、刑法犯なども含めた統計のある０３年以降、毎年増加していた。
　検挙のうち、傷害致死が１件、殺人未遂が１１０件。警察は事態が深刻化する前に積極的に事件化する方針で、暴行が５１８３件と最も多かった。（2021/03/04-10:13）

Japanese police took action against 8,778 domestic violence cases in 2020, down by 383 from the previous year, the first fall since statistics began in 2003, National Police Agency data showed Thursday.
   The agency said there is concern that the decrease may have resulted from a situation where people had fewer opportunities to meet with non-family members amid the coronavirus pandemic and many domestic violence cases were kept under cover as a result.
   "We'll work on actively collecting information," an agency official said.
   On the back of rising public awareness of domestic violence and a law revision in 2014 that added abuse against unmarried partners living together to the list of domestic violence, the overall number of domestic violence cases against which police took action had kept increasing every year since comparable data, including on criminal assault cases, became available in 2003.
   The cases in 2020 included an incident of injury resulting in death and 110 attempted murder cases. As many as 5,183 incidents were established as criminal assault cases, reflecting police efforts to actively build cases against violence incidents before they develop into more serious situations.