Recommendation 9

Given reforms to the provision of local services, including the proposed abolition of police and crime commissioners, we recommend regional mayors take a lead role in working with community organisations to raise awareness of the reporting service, to build trust in its effectiveness, to 50 ensure that the service reaches all Muslim communities in their areas and to work with local police in developing appropriate responses to spikes in reporting. The reporting service should collect data that can be disaggregated by religion, gender and visibility markers such as whether the victim was wearing a hijab. (Recommendation, Paragraph 59)