Rape offence reported every hour in London as charities brand figures 'horrifying'

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A rape offence is reported every hour in London, according to data branded “horrifying” by charities.

More than 8,800 rape incidents were reported to the Metropolitan Police in 2023 - an average of 24 a day.

The figures, obtained by the BBC under Freedom of Information requests, lift the lid on the extent of serious sexual offending in the capital.

Charities say the true extent of offending will be far higher with some crimes not being reported to the police.

The Met has pledged to tackle sexual violence, is "striving to do better" and emphasises that the number of rape charges has more than doubled since 2022.

The data provided by the Met and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) shows there were 11,000 reports of other sexual crimes reported to the Met last year.

Almost a quarter of all reported crimes are from people aged under 18.

Article continues at https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rape-offence-reported-every-hour-101411791.html

On Saturday Yvette Cooper will announce support for the National Centre for Public Protection, set up in the past year, which she wants to help her mission of “ruthlessly pursuing” perpetrators of violence against women and girls across the country to tackle what she describes as a “national emergency” of domestic violence and sexual offences.

She wants the centre to play a key role in meeting Cooper’s pledge that the police will take violence against women and girls as seriously as they take terrorism. It sits within the College of Policing and has access to more than 4,500 new officers trained in the specialist skills to investigate the complexities of violence against women and girls.

The centre, led by Maggie Blyth, deputy chief executive of the College of Policing and the national police lead for tackling male-perpetrated violence towards women, will use counter-terrorism style data analysis and covert tactics to target the most serious offenders.

It will start by identifying and targeting the 1,000 men who pose the greatest danger to women and girls across the country and provide police forces with the specialist training, expertise and technical capability needed to improve investigations into violence committed by men.

Cooper wants the centre to help forces get much smarter in identifying, monitoring and targeting high-risk offenders. This will include a new national standard for using predictive and proactive technology.

From longer article at https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/violent-porn-warping-young-boys-attitude-to-sex-warns-home-secretary-cxqt79xpd

Can also be read at https://archive.is/ogGQ5

I didn't even know the National Centre for Public Protection exists! From July 2024

The creation of a dedicated policing hub, the National Centre for Public Protection in the College of Policing, would support forces with specialist knowledge and training for investigators and officers, and lead on a national approach to preventative work with other agencies. Ultimately, this would deliver a better service to victims through quality investigations and victim care.
https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/call-to-action-as-violence-against-women-and-girls-epidemic-deepens-1

Thread with some related discussion about the 14-year-old girls and reported rapes:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womensrights/5170209-times-girls-aged-14-now-make-up-the-most-common-group-to-report-rape-to-the-police

iirc, we've had earlier discussion about the announced focus on the 1000 most (known) dangerous men and domestic violence.

I'm not very coherent at present as I find the state of the world for women very disheartening.

Thread with some related discussion about the 14-year-old girls and reported rapes:

Thanks - and I probably didn't make clear in my OP (posted much too late at night) was yet another unrealistic claim being made by Labour.

So maybe I should have put it on another thread, but at the moment they are promising DV specialists in 999 call centres and now some sort of specialist task force but based in a policing hub.

Great if any of them actually turn out to work, but where is the matching campaign to do something about the male violence which is not only happening in real life but in the virtual world.