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How the police respond to victims of sexual abuse when the victim is from an ethnic minority background and may be at risk of honour-based abuse: Tees Valley Inclusion Project super-complaint

Published 16 December 2023Super-complaintJoint with College of Policing, IOPC2 recommendations

Found victims of honour-based abuse did not always receive good enough service. Officers sometimes did not recognise risks. Urgent improvements needed in ethnicity data recording.

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Coverage

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Recommendations

2
Recommendation 1 Wording not verified against the report

Addressed to: Chief constables

Update forces' sexual abuse policies to include the risk of honour-based abuse
Recommendation 2 Wording not verified against the report

Addressed to: College of Policing

Update existing sexual abuse APP to include risk of honour-based abuse

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