Times article today
http://archive.today/3e5aV
Highlights the fact that the police forces do not have a unified way to record and collate information about rape and other crimes of violence against women.
I am stunned. Daily we have the point driven home that women and girls simply don't matter.
from the article:
Basic questions about the scale of rape, sexual assaults and indecent exposure “cannot be answered” because data collection is “patchy and difficult to obtain”, she said.
More than a quarter (26 per cent) of police forces in England and Wales have failed to implement a basic, unified policy for investigating sexual offences. Police chiefs have also ignored Angiolini’s recommendation that those with convictions or cautions for sexual offences should be automatically barred from service, although the Home Office said the measure is likely to be implemented next year.
The inquiry exposed a “troubling” lack of funding and ambition to prioritise and tackle predatory behaviour before it escalates. Angiolini warned that many women’s lives could be at risk as the Christmas party season gets under way and women travel to meet friends and relatives.