The bystander effect: The role we can all play in tackling domestic abuse

As a frontline police officer in Edinburgh, Graham Goulden had seen it all when it came to domestic abuse.

However, he is the first to admit that he and his colleagues haven’t always known how to deal with coercive partners and their terrified victims when called to their doors.

“In the 80s and the 90s we would just tell people to be quiet,” he reflects.