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Welcome to the Victim Support Department (VSD)
is this an emergency, or do you feel unsafe?
Call the emergency services by dialling your jurisdiction's emergency number, or click the button down below if you live in Europe.
Anyone living in Europe can click the above button to be connected to the emergency call handlers. However, it's a criminal offence in most jurisdictions to hoax call 112 or local emergency numbers, and punishments can vary from a verbal warning to a criminal record or even prison time. We take no responsibility for the misuse of this button and do not condone this in any way, as it is dangerous, potentially illegal, and an obstruction to people in genuine need of help.
Report
To report an incident or provide us with general information or intelligence, you can either email the IID or contact our Department via email. As, if necessary, the IID will either refer you to us or collaborate with our team, who are independent and there to support the victim and act on their interests and wishes. Also, we can take the exact same action as the IID but are only likely to do this if the victim would benefit from an independent investigation or if they've asked us not to involve their Department.
Who are we, and what do we do?
An independent Department from the IID, we can use citizen powers in whichever jurisdiction we are in to hold people accountable, perform citizens' arrests, work with suspects and society and try to avoid legal sanctions or public humiliation, represent victims, and privately investigate, as well as gather general intelligence and evidence of moral or legal wrongdoing. However, in reality, we wouldn't usually do most of this, as our focus is set on supporting victims when needed unless we feel that an independent investigation would be in the public interest; in this case, the IID would not be notified of our investigation, and we would take the same action as their Department's team would. We might, however, collaborate with the IID and involve them later on or at the beginning, or we may request that their team investigate instead. We are two separate departments, and neither of us can take over each others' investigations unless authorised by an authorised team member, but certain law-enforcement agencies can regardless of our policies.