The District Attorney’s Office is holding a Safe Surrender for people with domestic violence related warrants on October 28, 2015 9am-3pm at the Dauphin County Booking Center.  If you show up and turn yourself in and you have no other outstanding warrants you will be released on unsecured bail and given a court date.  If you do not turn yourself in on that date police will be actively attempting to serve the warrant.

Domestic violence is a crime that is often overlooked and misunderstood as compared to other crimes the public hear about.  Most times domestic violence incidents only make the news when a victim has been killed.  Those headline grabbing incidents are only the tip of the iceberg compared to the total number of domestic violence crimes reported each year. 

According to statistics cited by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) on their website:

• 1 in every 4 women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.
• 1 in 33 men have experienced an attempted or completed rape.
• An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year.