Police 'failing' domestic violence victims
Thousands of domestic violence victims are being failed by police forces across England and Wales due to "alarming and unacceptable weaknesses" in the way cases are investigated, inspectors have found.
Domestic violence victims 'feel judged' by police
Police attitudes were recently laid bare in a case in the West Midlands, where officers were inadvertently recorded calling an alleged victim a "f***ing slag".
In the report, inspectors said:
HMIC warned the quality of response of an officer attending a domestic abuse incident was entirely dependent on the individual attending and was left "almost entirely to chance".
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