Violence Against Women and Girls has been described as a "national threat"

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r787grqp0o

I have an idea….can you guess what it is?

It is so frustrating when I have pieced together information on incidents in toilets and there is no national database (even in schools and hospitals) of crimes happening in toilets.

"It shows how much work there is to do in preventing sexually motivated crimes against women in public spaces and all those at risk," the statement said.

‘New recommendations in part two of the Angiolini Inquiry include encouraging more people to take action when they see bad behaviour, with the introduction of a wider Good Samaritan law as well as consistent collection and sharing of data on national and local levels.’

It means being able to call out bad behaviour and feel that you are supported. It needs to be logged and collated in order to find ways to prevent it.

Link to the lengthy report and recommendations.
E03342246Angiolini-Inquiry-Pt2Accessible.pdf https://share.google/67Nbk3xJuJvDFsTwn

I haven't had chance to read it yet.

Haven’t read the report yet, but this is so infuriating that we are still here.

I assume the report doesn’t mention the last ten years or so of training us all to NOT speak out if we see something concerning if there’s any prospect of anybody seeing an opportunity to shout ‘bigot’?

More than a quarter of police forces in England and Wales have not implemented basic policies for investigating sexual offences, a report has found, four years after the rape and murder of Sarah Everard.
Lady Elish Angiolini KC's latest report, looking at the prevention of sexually motivated crimes against women in public, said the crimes remained widespread, criticised limited data on them and called for urgent action to prevent predators from offending.

My. How 'surprising'.

The remit of the second part of her report, published on Tuesday, examines the extent to which existing measures prevent sexually motivated crimes against women in public spaces.

Fucking hell.

In part one of her report, published in February last year, Lady Elish had recommended that by September 2024, police forces should ensure they have a specialist policy on investigating all sexual offences, including "non-contact" offences like indecent exposure.

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The report also pointed to concerns over gaps in national data, including how many women report being the victim of rape and other sexually motivated crimes in public spaces.
Lady Elish warned that without these figures being gathered and recorded consistently across all forces, patterns of offending cannot be spotted.

Ahuh...

Part two of the Angiolini Inquiry recommended the government and police prioritising prevention of sexually motivated crimes against women in public spaces, a comprehensive government strategy, and a focus on perpetrators.
Other recommendations include:
Improving information and programmes to create a culture of positive masculinity for men and boys
Targeted consistent public messaging about how to report crimes, such as indecent exposure
Increased use of police officers to help architects and planners in the design of safe public spaces
Roll-out in England and Wales of Project Vigilant started by Thames Valley Police to focus on men targeting women in the night-time economy, and converting more promising policing initiatives into national practice
Implementation of Operation Soteria, a programme to improve the response of police and the Crown Prosecution Service to rape cases
Significantly increasing the collection and use of data on sexually motivated crimes against women in public spaces
Encouraging more people to take action when they see bad behaviour, with the government considering a wider Good Samaritan law - requiring witnesses to act when they see someone in danger

Like... we needed a report to state the fucking obvious to us on MN.

How can we do ANY of this if we don't even record sex in public settings and in crime reports???!

Wasn't there a recent consultation on a new leisure centre with no single sex changing facilities which the police objected to because of risk factor. I'm not sure they were listened to.
Recommendation 18:
Increased use of police Designing Out Crime Officers in
the prevention of sexually motivated crimes against women in public spaces
By November 2026, the Government should explore how to improve the impact that
the safety advice provided by police Designing Out Crime Officers could have on the
prevention of sexually motivated crimes in public spaces, including by amendments to
policies and changing their status within relevant planning legislation.