Police slated for response to crimes against women
POLICE need to take “immediate and radical” action to respond with greater pace and urgency to “an epidemic of offending against women and girls”, according to a damning report.
- An estimated 1.6 million women — plus 757,000 men — in England and Wales experienced domestic abuse in the 12 months to March 2020.
- Over a third of all police-recorded sexual offences were against children, with girls more likely to experience sexual abuse.
- In the year to September 2020, the police recorded 153,136 rape and other sexual offences. The victim was female in 84 per cent of these cases.