{"id":1433,"date":"2017-11-07T21:27:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T21:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2017-11-07T21:27:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T21:27:15","slug":"only-5-of-honour-crimes-reported-to-police-are-referred-to-cps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/only-5-of-honour-crimes-reported-to-police-are-referred-to-cps\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 5% of &#8216;honour&#8217; crimes reported to police are referred to CPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charity says police in the UK are failing the victims of \u2018honour\u2019 based violence, forced marriage and FGM<\/p>\n<p>The police are failing the victims of \u201chonour\u201d crimes, with just 5% of reported cases being referred to the Crown Prosecution Service, a leading charity has warned.<\/p>\n<p>The number of cases of \u201chonour\u201d based violence, forced marriage and FGM reported to the police has increased by 53% since 2014, figures obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite the rise in reporting, the volume of cases referred to the CPS for a charging decision is the lowest it has been for five years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore victims of \u2018honour\u2019 based violence are coming forward to the police than ever before but worryingly the evidence suggests those seeking justice are being failed by the system,\u201d said Diana Nammi, the executive director of the Iranian and Kurdish Women\u2019s Rights Organisation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2017\/nov\/07\/only-5-of-honour-crimes-reported-to-police-are-referred-to-cps\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2017\/nov\/07\/only-5-of-honour-crimes-reported-to-police-are-referred-to-cps<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charity says police in the UK are failing the victims of \u2018honour\u2019 based violence, forced marriage and FGM The police are failing the victims of \u201chonour\u201d crimes, with just 5% of reported cases being referred to the Crown Prosecution Service, a leading charity has warned. The number of cases of \u201chonour\u201d based violence, forced marriage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forced-marriage","category-honour-based-abuse"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}