National roll-out of Project Vigilant
Angiolini Inquiry · Angiolini Inquiry Part 2 First Report: Prevention of sexually motivated crimes against women in public spaces · Issued 2 December 2025 · Addressed to: Home Office
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation, Recommendation 21
By April 2026, the Home Office, the National Centre for Violence Against Women and Girls and Public Protection, and the National Police Chiefs' Council should roll out Project Vigilant nationally and consistently across all forces in England and Wales. This should be introduced primarily across nighttime economy spaces but should then be expanded to other suitable environments in which Project Vigilant could help prevent and interrupt perpetrators of sexually motivated crimes against women in public spaces.
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Published evidence summary
Publicly available evidence relating to this recommendation:
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Jess Phillips made a written statement to Parliament (HCWS1122) on 2 December 2025 accepting all 13 Part 2 recommendations and committing to embed expertise from Project Vigilant across police forces (Written Statement HCWS1122, 2 December 2025).
- The government announced £13.1 million in funding to the National Centre for Violence Against Women and Girls and Public Protection (Written Statement HCWS1122, 2 December 2025).
- No specific public evidence that Project Vigilant has been rolled out nationally and consistently across all forces as of March 2026.
Response — verbatim from government
●Home Office
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Jess Phillips made a written statement to Parliament (HCWS1122) on 2 December 2025 accepting all 13 Part 2 recommendations. The government announced £13.1 million in funding to deliver a coordinated approach through the National Centre for Violence Against Women and Girls and Public Protection, and committed to putting police vetting standards on a statutory footing to exclude those with cautions or convictions for violence against women and girls offences. The government pledged to halve violence against women and girls within a decade and to embed expertise from programmes such as Operation Soteria and Project Vigilant across police forces.
Home Office · 2 Dec 2025
Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
No published activity has been recorded against this recommendation yet.
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