Survey of all 42 Police and Crime Plans found ‘haphazard’, unreliable responses to gender-based violence.

A briefing paper published recently by the End Violence Against Women Coalition this week has found the 42 Police and Crime Commissioners’ responses to domestic violence, sexual violence and other forms of violence against women and girls “haphazard” and unreliable, combined with worrying denial about the fact that these crimes are widespread and very disproportionately affect women and girls.