PERANAN UNIT PELAYANAN PEREMPUAN DAN ANAK (PPA) KEPOLISIAN RESOR PADANG PARIAMAN DALAM PENANGGULANGAN TINDAK PIDANA KEKERASAN TERHADAP ANAK

Abstrak

Criminal acts of violence against the children are regulated in Law Number 35 Year 2014 about children protection. The rise of cases of violence against the children, needed the role of the women’s and children’s service unit in Padang Pariaman Resort Police in efforts to countermeasures with criminal acts of violence against the children. Research purpose: to analyze the role of the women’s and children’s services unit in Padang pariaman Resort Police in countermeasures with criminal acts of violence against the children, to analyze the obstacle encountered of the women’s and children’s service unit in Padang Pariaman Resort Polic in countermeasures with criminal acts of violence against the children. This is the type of sociological juridicial research; the data source used is primary data in the form of interviews and secondary data in the form of criminal statistics; data collecting techniques using interviews and documents study; the collected data were analyzed qualitatively. Conclusion: 1) the women’s and children’s service unit in Padang Pariaman Resort Police has played a role in implementing the countermeasures of criminal acts of violence against the children through the following mechanisms: receiving reports from the public; investigation; cooperation with social service for the protection of women’s and children’s Padang Pariaman; 2) the obstacles faced were internal obstacles including human resources, infrastructure, and external obstacles in the form of victims not being open in giving statements, psychological disorders, difficulties in finding witnesses. Keywords: women’s and children’s service unit, countermeasures, violence, children