It has been installed in the walls of the Quimper police station, rue Théodore-Le Hars every Monday, Wednesday and Friday since February 2024. Élisabeth Gramoullé, experienced social worker, occupies one of the six social worker positions positioned for several months in the police stations or gendarmerie of Finistère. A space for listening, for relaying to other services or institutions. A parenthesis in a judicial environment, where emergency solutions and sometimes one-off support can emerge that the police cannot or do not know how to provide. The materialization of complementarity in the response provided to victims.
“50% of cases of domestic violence”
Élisabeth Gramoullé's door is not only open to women victims of domestic violence. But they represent, after ten months of practice, approximately half of the people that the speaker received in complete confidentiality in the small dedicated office, on the ground floor of the police station, opposite the public reception.
“The step after the listening time is often to work in the exchange to become aware of an abnormal situation, a victim situation: prevented from having a job, monitored and, sometimes, not even considered as a person.
With her experience as a social worker, the worker knows how important the relationship of trust is in the exchange to implement the right solution. But also and above all to begin to dismantle the feeling of guilt of the victims that she says she regularly observes.
