Thank you for the question.
I think more and more as we're talking about coercive control we're raising awareness within the population. What I'm seeing is that women are calling me and asking when this will be criminalized. I already know, from doing round tables with police officers, that they are looking for something. They understand that there's something happening when they respond to a scene, but the situation is not criminalized because they don't have the evidence that they are supposed to find—physical violence, injuries, damage to the property. They are left with nothing.
Whether we criminalize coercive control or not, police officers need to better document the situation even if it's not criminalized. If they are to understand what coercive control is, they can better support the victim and also potentially refer the perpetrator somewhere.