When police officers pull someone over, they depend on Metro 911 to let them know if anyone in the vehicle is in trouble with the law.

While warrants and the status of someone's driver's license routinely come up, Domestic Violence Protection Orders are not part of the equation.

Hours before he allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend Nalisha Gravely, Desmond Clark was stopped by Dunbar Police Officers. But they didn't know he was violating a DVP by having Gravely in the car with him. So they let him go after issuing a pair of citations.

Metro's director says dispatchers followed procedure when the call about Clark came in early Saturday morning.

But soon, officers will know if someone they've stopped is violating a DVP, thanks to a program put together by the state Supreme Court.

Angie Saunders with the W.Va. Supreme Court says she's hopeful the new program will make a difference in the field.

Saunders says statewide training is scheduled to take place in September. That's when she's hopeful the DVP details will become a part of an emergency dispatcher's information package.