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soft room

soft room noun: a room set up in a police station with amenities that make it easier to talk with children, trauma victims, or other vulnerable populations.

Noun

soft room (plural soft rooms)

  1. A room set up in a police station with amenities that make it easier to talk with children, trauma victims, or other vulnerable populations.
    • Glendale District 4 purchased toys and equipment for the "soft room" occupied by children when family violence/tragic events bring them into police headquarters.1989, “Child Abuse Prevention”, in LACMA Physician, volume 119, number 12, Los Angeles County Medical Association, page 29
    • Though he possessed no formal training in interviewing children, he had spent five years working with traumatized children and learning through trial and error how to interview them. His boss assigned him to show the Martensville rookie how to interview them too, in the Soft Room at the Saskatoon...1997 November, Frann Harris, “The Prosecution”, in Martensville: Truth Or Justice?: The Story of the Martensville Daycare Trials, Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 37

Examples of soft room in a sentence

  • His boss assigned him to show the Martensville rookie how to interview them too, in the Soft Room at the Saskatoon police station.1997 November, Frann Harris, “The Prosecution”, in Martensville: Truth Or Justice?: The Story of the Martensville Daycare Trials, Dundurn...
  • In deliberate contrast, the soft room was outfitted with overstuffed chairs and painted a deep blue.2015 April 22, Allison Oligschlaeger, “West Valley police open 'soft' interview room for victims of violence”, in Deseret News, →ISSN:
  • The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department installed the first soft room in Missouri.2024 June 25, Amanda Alvarado, “Police department creates ‘soft’ interview room for assault survivors”, in News, WIBW:
  • Two years ago, another police department in the Kansas City suburb of Belton used a federal grant to create a similar soft room.2024 July 11, Jaclyn Diaz, “After a tragedy, a mother wants to soften the rooms where police interview victims”, in National, NPR:

Forms of soft room

pluralsoft rooms

Questions about soft room

What does soft room mean?
Soft room means a room set up in a police station with amenities that make it easier to talk with children, trauma victims, or other vulnerable populations.
How do you use soft room in a sentence?
His boss assigned him to show the Martensville rookie how to interview them too, in the Soft Room at the Saskatoon police station.
What part of speech is soft room?
Soft room is a noun.
What is the plural of soft room?
The plural of soft room is soft rooms.

Words near soft room in the dictionary

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