Domestic violence register will be overseen

THE Department of Justice is to monitor the operation of a domestic violence register planned for Britain to see how a similar wife-beater tracking system might work here.

Legislation setting up the register is to published in Britain next month after long debate about how best to track the movements of violent men and warn new partners about their past.

Similar to the sex offenders' register, it would contain the names of anyone sentenced to six months or more for assaulting their wife, partner or girlfriend, and the information would be available to social services and, in some instances, the offender's new partner.