The Delaware County District Attorney’s Office and Criminal Investigation Division led an expanded training course earlier this month for rank-and-file police officers to teach them signs of child abuse and how to conduct themselves during that crucial first contact with survivors.

“If you’re dealing with these, frontline, we want you to understand some of the very big, complicated concepts and have them simplified, so when you see this, you’re not immediately like, ‘Well, nothing happened here,’ ” said Deputy District Attorney Kristen Kemp, head of the Special Victims Unit. “… I think people want to do this right, and whether they want to do the investigations or not, the reality of it is, you’re on duty, someone calls 911, you’re starting the investigation. So having that basic knowledg

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