{"id":1641,"date":"2019-03-20T11:17:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T11:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2019-03-20T11:17:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T11:17:21","slug":"police-failing-to-protect-rape-and-abuse-victims-says-super-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/police-failing-to-protect-rape-and-abuse-victims-says-super-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Police failing to protect rape and abuse victims, says super-complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"

Data from 11 frontline services shows forces failing to use legal powers, says group<\/p>\n

Police<\/a>\u00a0are \u201csystematically failing\u201d to protect victims of domestic and sexual violence, according to campaigners in the second super-complaint made to a national watchdog.<\/p>\n

The Centre for Women\u2019s Justice (CWJ) has accused police forces of failing to use existing powers to deal with domestic abuse, harassment, stalking and rape.<\/p>\n

In a super-complaint to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services, the group makes four key claims focusing on bail for rape suspects and failures linked to non-molestation, domestic violence and restraint orders.<\/p>\n

\u201cCentre for Women\u2019s Justice has become concerned that the various legal measures intended to provide protection to women are not being applied properly on the ground,\u201d the document says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis super-complaint addresses four legal powers available to the police in detail and explores the extent to which, and the reasons why, they are not being used adequately. When all the failures are taken cumulatively, CWJ believes that there is a systemic failure to meet the state\u2019s duty to safeguard a highly vulnerable section of the population.\u201d<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2019\/mar\/20\/police-failing-to-protect-and-abuse-victims-says-super-complaint<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Data from 11 frontline services shows forces failing to use legal powers, says group Police\u00a0are \u201csystematically failing\u201d to protect victims of domestic and sexual violence, according to campaigners in the second super-complaint made to a national watchdog. The Centre for Women\u2019s Justice (CWJ) has accused police forces of failing to use existing powers to deal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","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=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}