Source · HMICFRS
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
16 December 2023
Super-complaint
Joint with College of Policing, IOPC
2 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.
Recommendations
1
Update forces' sexual abuse policies to include the risk of honour-based abuse
Chief constables
2
Update existing sexual abuse APP to include risk of honour-based abuse
College of Policing