My Time Team visits Italy to investigate domestic violence and stalking intervention

This Month the My Time Team visits Italy with the West Midlands Police in a joint international project with other counselling teams and emergency services throughout Europe, to improve and expand current domestic violence prevention services.

My Time Ltd sent its stalking Research Project Team to Leverano, Italy, earlier this month to take part in an international research study into the causes of stalking and obsessional behaviour.

My Time has participated in three symposiums on Stalking and will be hosting the fourth Symposium taking place in August at our Birmingham Practice.

There have been over 800 reported incident in the West Midlands during the last six months. Only a low proportion of these offences resulted in positive court results and most women- the majority of victims- stay within these situations. My Time, working with West Midlands Police in selected areas of Birmingham, has launched a cutting edge, innovative pilot, being run in Inner City Birmingham, that is international in approach.

Michael Lilley, Managing of Director of My Time, explains: "Stalking in the UK is not a crime in itself, until such time as an individual is harmed. It is My Time's view that action should be taken much earlier with the objective of encouraging the stalker to stop his- or her in fewer cases- irrational behaviour before an individual is mentally or physically injured or even killed".

The pilot surrounds the Stalking KIT, a model where the perpetrator is offered a package of counselling at the earliest possible opportunity with a view to bringing this obessional behaviour to a stop.

"As soon as a complaint is made to the police, efforts should be made to contact the stalker and set up counselling sessions to tackle the root cause which is stimulating him to act in an irrational manner"