Jordan leads the Arab world in its efforts to tackle domestic abuse against women and children. Since 1997 the Family Protection Department in the PSD has forefronted the state’s campaign, albeit with extensive involvement of women’s rights groups, many of which are associated with members of the Royal Family. And yet, extensive public opposition remains to state intervention into the private affairs of the family. In the absence of ‘spontaneous consent’ for the Family Protection Department, the police rely on strategies of power including royal and external patronage, alliances with women’s rights movements, legal strictures and, ultimately, coercion, to undertake their work. The chapter draws on interviews with police officers, lawyers, women’s rights groups as well as societal figures opposed to the initiative.