Police 'not taking domestic violence reports seriously'

HM Inspector of Constabulary Zoe Billingham said she had spoken to "plenty of examples" of domestic abuse victims who had been failed by police.

"They were expecting the responding officer to come over the threshold and actually stop the abuse from happening, and all too often the officer was listening to the radio of waiting for the next call to come in," she told ITV News.

One victim said she heard an officer tell a colleague: "I'm just at a DV [domestic violence case], I'll be a couple of minutes."

"It's not taking it seriously."