If you report your case to the police station, you can expect the following process:

You will be asked to sign the Occurrence Book at the police station.
They will then:

• provide you with a notice in a language you understand and explain how you should proceed.
• find someone to speak to you in the language you understand.
• take your statement in privacy and not in the presence of the abuser or the public.
• decide on the basis of your statement, whether to arrest the abuser and take his/her firearm, as well as determine your needs and how to assist you.
• serve a protection order on the person against whom it was made, as directed by the court.
• keep a copy of the protection order and record every arrest made as proof for victims; and
• note your complaint in the Incident Register at the station as further proof that you reported the matter. This will also enable us to give a report on the progress in your case.