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![]() These structural, strategic and tactical inconsistencies must be addressed if the police and their partners are to make inroads in tackling the deep-rooted problem of VAWG offences. at national level: actions to improve the police response are split over multiple Government strategies.at local partnership level: roles and responsibilities for partners working together in multi-agency safeguarding arrangements vary considerably and.at force level: there are unexplained variations in how frequently different forces are using the protective powers and orders at their disposal to protect women and girls.at an individual case level: victims reported very different responses, depending on which officer they spoke with, or the call-handler who took their call they told us that some officers showed exceptional care and sensitivity, while others made them feel like they weren’t believed.This is against a backdrop of increasing reported crimes in this area (including more reports of non-recent offences), competing priorities, and the continuing effects of austerity on policing and partner-agency budgets.ĭespite all these improvements, this inspection found inconsistencies at every level in how the police respond to VAWG and victims. At the national level, we find evidence of passionate and visible leadership, committed to improving the service provided across England and Wales. In every force, we also find dedicated and professional police officers and staff providing exceptional policing. We have reported in recent inspections on generally better identification of repeat victims, for instance, and improved safeguarding measures and support. We conclude that the police have made vast improvements over the past ten years in how they respond to and investigate VAWG. However, the police do have unique powers and responsibilities to protect victims from further harm, pursue perpetrators and prevent crime. I say more of this later in this foreword. It is a societal problem which requires a societal response. Most compellingly, we have also heard the individual accounts of victims and survivors themselves.įirst, I want to underline, early and with emphasis, that the police alone cannot ‘solve’ violence against women and girls. To assess the police response to this problem, we have gathered evidence from inspections of police forces, from national data, and from policing and Government policies and strategies. The problem is known, consistent and deep-rooted in its presence, and growing in the forms it takes. Every week brought new data or surveys on the crimes committed against women and girls on the harassment they experience in public spaces, online, in their homes or schools, or where they work on how unsafe they feel and the extra precautions they take as a result. In fact, we struggled to keep our section in this report on the scale of the problem updated as a result of the pace of new data and findings on the size and shape of this epidemic. We consider they represent an epidemic of violent and abusive offending against women and girls in England and Wales. ![]() In one recent survey, two out of three 16 to 34-year-old women and girls reported that they had been sexually harassed in the past year. For instance, in the year ending March 2020, it is estimated that 1.6 million women (and 757,000 men) in England and Wales experienced domestic abuse. Statistics on the prevalence and scope of other VAWG offences are also shocking. The names of other women who have been murdered have reached public consciousness since then, including Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, Gracie Spinks and Julia James.īut over the past decade, an average of 80 women a year were killed by a partner or ex-partner, and many of these women’s names do not appear on the front pages of the newspapers. ![]() The Home Secretary commissioned this report in March 2021 as part of the response to the horrific murder of Sarah Everard. These are violent and high-harm crimes that disproportionally affect women and girls, such as domestic abuse, sexual violence, stalking and female genital mutilation. ![]() This report sets out findings from our inspection of how effectively the police respond to violence against women and girls (VAWG ( PDF document) ) offences. ![]()
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