Police tech abuse response
Need to upskill law enforcement and improve crime data collection to enhance the criminal justice response to technology-facilitated abuse.
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Committee recommendation
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#20 - Produce joint guidance to improve police response and content takedown for intimate image abuse.
The College of Policing, Ofcom, and the Revenge Porn Helpline should work together to produce guidance to improve the police response to reports of non-consensual intimate image abuse. That guidance should include the steps police officers need to take to help ensure that content is taken down and blocked as a matter of priority. (Recommendation, Paragraph 104)
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#19 - Upskill law enforcement and improve crime data to enhance response to tech abuse
The Government’s response to tech abuse should involve upskilling law enforcement to improve the criminal justice response and increasing law enforcement’s and victims’ and survivors’ awareness of specialist services tackling violence against women and girls. The Government should also reflect on how official crime data on tech abuse can be improved to expand the evidence base for specialists,...
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#18 - Make tackling technology-facilitated abuse a priority across law enforcement and justice system
The Government must make tackling technology-facilitated abuse, or “tech abuse”, a priority. There is little evidence to suggest that our law enforcement and criminal justice system has been equipped to deal with the problems caused by tech abuse now, let alone as connected devices become even more prevalent in future. While there is no “silver bullet” for dealing...
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#32 - Developing technology significantly changes abuse methods, integrating into most domestic abuse cases.
The Domestic Abuse Commissioner also highlighted how developing technology is also contributing to changes in the nature of abuse and the methods used by perpetrators.75 The Gender and Tech Research Lab at University College London, claims that technology has transformed the landscape of VAWG crimes, and highlighted reporting by domestic abuse charity, Refuge, which showed 72% of their...
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#24 - Police training needs review to reflect evolving technology-exploiting crime landscape.
The College of Policing should conduct a review of the training offered to front- line staff to ensure it reflects the changing crime landscape and provides a strong foundation in crimes that exploit technology such as fraud. (Paragraph 88) 40 Fraud and the Justice System Prosecuting fraud
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#23 - Police training inadequately addresses technology-exploiting fraud crimes and evolving offending methods.
Fraud crimes can be easy to spot in many cases if a police officer has adequate awareness of technological developments, but can be missed in the absence of such knowledge. The training of police remains focused on more traditional crime types whereas there is clearly a need for it to keep pace with the changing nature of offending.
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#19 - Police treatment of intimate image abuse victims demonstrates lack of understanding and misogyny.
Every victim of a sexual offence deserves to be treated with respect and have their case investigated promptly and effectively by the police. However, in many cases police treatment of victims of intimate image abuse has been characterised by a lack of understanding and in some cases misogyny, with officers’ choosing to patronise victims rather than support them....
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Committee recommendation
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#31 - Tech-enabled violence against women and girls represents a rapidly evolving and increasing threat.
Tech–enabled violence against women and girls refers to the use of technology to perpetrate violence, harassment, or abuse. Crimes include online harassment; image–based abuse (including the sharing of intimate imagery of perpetrator to victim, without the victim’s consent); revenge porn (the sharing of intimate images of the victim by the perpetrator, sometimes referred to as NCII (non–consensual intimate...
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Committee recommendation
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#24 - Few platforms accept non-consensual intimate image hash matching technology.
Hash matching technology is a crucial tool in preventing non-consensual intimate image abuse. It is unacceptable that so few platforms receive NCII hashes, not least when they are already able to incorporate similar technologies for preventing the sharing of child sexual abuse material. It is obvious to us that accepting hashes for NCII is the right thing to...
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Committee recommendation
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#21 - Perpetrators of non-consensual intimate image abuse retain content-bearing devices post-conviction.
Cases have been drawn to our attention where, at the end of the criminal justice process, perpetrators have had the devices containing the NCII content returned to them—even in cases where the perpetrator has been 55 served with a restraining order. It is needless for us to say how harrowing that must be for the victims of these...
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HMICFRS recommendation
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Report on the Suzy Lamplugh Trust's super-complaint: The police response to stalking
By 27 March 2025, chief constables should take steps to improve how their force effectively recognises and responds to online elements of stalking by understanding online behaviour scale, including cyber-stalking in training, providing online safety advice, and procuring appropriate digital safeguarding tools.
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#20 - Convene cross-sector tech abuse working group to produce guidance and code of practice
We want to see words from cross-sector stakeholders on tech abuse now leading to positive actions. The Office for Product Safety and Standards should, at the earliest opportunity, convene a “tech abuse working group” with stakeholders, bringing industry together with researchers, specialist support services and public services. This group should be more than just a talking shop, and...
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#22 - Increase courts' use of deprivation orders to prevent perpetrators retaining intimate images.
The Sentencing Council must take steps to increase awareness of the ability of the courts to ensure that those charged with NCII offences forfeit all right to continued possession of that material, including both the physical removal of devices on which that material may be stored and deletion of any content stored remotely. In response to this report,...
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#51 - Ensure law enforcement and regulators are adequately resourced for harmful AI content response.
The Government should in its response to this Report tell us how it will ensure law enforcement and regulators are adequately resourced to respond to the growing use of AI models and tools to generate and disseminate harmful and illegal content.
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Committee recommendation
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#6 - Insufficient national support for policing social media intelligence monitoring, especially on closed platforms.
Individual police forces did their best to monitor social media ahead of and during the disorder as a source of intelligence. It is important that forces retain local capacity to monitor social media on a business-as-usual basis. However, it is clear that the volume of social media activity, including some originating abroad, as well as the amount of...
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Committee recommendation
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#2 - Fraud enforcement and prosecution must adapt to new online technologies.
As the ways in which frauds are being perpetrated change, making increased use of the online sphere and new technologies, the enforcement and prosecution of these crimes also needs to adapt to keep pace with the crimes being conducted.
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Committee recommendation
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#5 - Ofcom's powers insufficient for timely removal of individual NCII abuse content
Ofcom’s current enforcement powers, while welcome, are far too slow and not designed to help individual victims get abusive images of themselves on non-compliant websites taken down or have access to them restricted. The duties under the regulatory regime created by the Online Safety Act are a good start. However, further steps are required to effectively tackle the...
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Inquiry recommendation
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LAMI-104 - PITO to evaluate child protection IT systems for police forces
The Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO) should evaluate the child protection IT systems currently available, and make recommendations to chief constables, who must ensure their police force has in use an effective child-protection database and IT management system.
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Committee recommendation
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#8 - Create guidance for internet providers and web browsers on tackling non-consensual intimate image abuse.
The Government should create guidance for internet infrastructure providers and web browser manufacturers on tackling online non-consensual intimate image abuse, similar to that which already exists for online child sexual exploitation and abuse. This guidance should direct both groups to make use of a designated expert body’s registry of NCII material. While there is no legal obligation to...
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Committee recommendation
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#26 - Ofcom's proposals should require companies to accept non-consensual intimate image hash matching.
It is clear that some companies require further persuasion to accept NCII hashes. We welcome Ofcom’s plans to launch a consultation in spring 2025 on expansions to its Codes of Practice that would include proposals on the use of hash matching technology to prevent the sharing of NCII. We are clear in our view that those proposals should...
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Committee recommendation
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#25 - Accept StopNCII.org hash matching technology as a matter of priority.
Google should accept the StopNCII.org hash matching technology as a matter of priority. (Recommendation, Paragraph 125)
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#14 - Establish a taskforce to assess workplace technology implications and labour law enforcement effectiveness.
We recommend that a taskforce of relevant enforcement bodies be established, alongside the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation and the Trades Union Congress, to assess the implications of technology in the workplace, to consider whether enforcement of labour laws is effective, and to make recommendations on whether further legislation is required. We recommend that the taskforce be...
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#10 - Expand the Data Bill's solicitation clause to criminalise all image-based abuse offences.
The law on solicitation was unclear, incomplete and open to misinterpretation by law enforcement agencies and others. We welcome the Government’s proposals to introduce a specific offence of solicitation for synthetic content via an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill. We urge the Government to expand this clause to include all image-based abuse offences, maintaining a...
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IMB recommendation
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Swaleside (2023)
We are pleased to note that in-cell technology has now been installed throughout the prison. This is bringing improvements for prisoners and for the operation of the prison. However, the Board is concerned by the abuse of the technology by some prisoners.
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Committee recommendation
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#9 - Direct user-to-user and search engine services to utilise a registry of non-consensual intimate image content.
In its illegal content Codes of Practice, Ofcom should direct user-to-user and search engine services to make use of a registry of NCII content, compiled by an expert body, on a similar basis to the provisions that exist for child sexual abuse material. (Recommendation, Paragraph 59)
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Inquiry recommendation
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R3 - Police IT procurement review
The procurement of IT systems by the police should be reviewed to ensure that, wherever possible, national solutions are delivered to national problems.
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Committee recommendation
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#7 - Require DSIT to outline Online Safety Act's impact on children's safety and VAWG prevention.
We are concerned that government departments’ approach to tech–enabled violence against women and girls is not sufficiently agile to address the threats posed by online harm. Tech–enabled VAWG is a rapidly evolving threat. For example, in 2024 the revenge porn helpline received 22,000 cases, compared with 521 in 2015. The Online Safety Act, introduced in October 2023, was...
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IOPC learning recommendation
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Recommendation - West Yorkshire Police, January 2026
The IOPC recommends that West Yorkshire Police implement a process for recording reasonable adjustments which a service user discloses to them, taking into account relevant data protection considerations. This follows a review where the complaint handler advised that the force had no system to record reasonable adjustments. This linked to a concern raised by the complainant about how...
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Committee recommendation
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#3 - Amend Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme eligibility to include online sexual offence claims
The Ministry of Justice must amend the eligibility criteria of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme to bring claims from victims of sexual offences perpetrated online, specifically non-consensual intimate image abuse, within its scope. (Recommendation, Paragraph 26)
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Committee recommendation
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#11 - Introduce a swift, inexpensive statutory civil process for non-consensual intimate image abuse.
The Government should take a holistic approach to legislating against NCII abuse by introducing a swift, inexpensive statutory civil process, as has been established in other jurisdictions such as British Columbia in Canada. Doing so would recognise survivors’ wishes to access redress beyond the criminal law, as well as empower them to take fast and effective action towards...
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Inquiry recommendation
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R8 - Information management Code of Practice
A Code of Practice should be produced covering record creation, review, retention, deletion and information sharing. This should be made under the Police Reform Act 2002 and needs to be clear, concise and practical. It should supersede existing guidance.
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Committee recommendation
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#12 - Regulatory framework lacks a statutory body to support non-consensual intimate image abuse victims.
There is a gap in the UK’s online regulatory framework for a statutory body to support and champion the rights of individuals affected by non- consensual intimate image abuse, and to work alongside the courts in the civil regime. Such a body is required to help ensure victims are able to secure redress and to oversee the registry...
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Committee recommendation
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#29 - Criminalise use of nudification apps as synthetic NCII and hold platforms accountable.
There is no legitimate reason whatsoever for the use or existence of nudification apps. The Government should ensure that the use of such an app is considered creation of synthetic NCII and therefore also a criminal offence and Ofcom should investigate the sites that offer this functionality. The Government should make sure that search engines and platforms that...
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#7 - Amend the Crime and Policing Bill to make possession of non-consensual intimate images an offence.
The Government should bring forward an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill to make possession of NCII an offence, in addition to its creation. This will put NCII on the same footing as CSAM in how it is treated online and—we hope—will provide the necessary encouragement to IIPs to block or disrupt access to such content, including...
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#6 - Justification to legally align NCII with CSAM to prompt provider action
For internet infrastructure providers to take the threat of NCII seriously and block access to websites that refuse to take it down, we believe that there is justification in bringing NCII in line with CSAM in law. (Conclusion, Paragraph 56)
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#7 - Enhance national policing system's capacity to monitor social media and support local forces.
The new national system for policing should include enhanced capacity to monitor and respond to social media at the national level, while also supporting forces to develop the necessary capacity. (Recommendation, Paragraph 31)
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Inquiry recommendation
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R5 - PNC Code of Practice implementation
The new Code of Practice, made under the Police Reform Act 2002, dealing with the quality and timeliness of PNC data input, should be implemented as soon as possible.
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Inquiry recommendation
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R1 - National IT system for police intelligence
A national IT system for England and Wales to support police intelligence should be introduced as a matter of urgency. The Home Office should take the lead and report by December 2004 with clear targets for implementation.
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Committee recommendation
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#2 - Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme's offence list outdated, excludes online harms
The list of offences that are within scope of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme is out of date. Crimes perpetrated online, such as non-consensual intimate image abuse, can be just as damaging to a person as those involving physical violence. They can have a catastrophic impact on a person’s mental health. It is essential that victims of such...
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Inquiry recommendation
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ANG-11 - Strengthen information-sharing practices
By December 2024, the College of Policing, in collaboration with force vetting and recruitment units, should ensure that information-sharing practices, including data retention policies, are strengthened in order to prevent those who commit sexually motivated crimes against women and those otherwise unsuitable for policing from remaining in, or moving across, the policing profession. In particular, there should be...
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Committee recommendation
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#21 - Twenty-First Report: Transforming electronic monitoring services
HMPPS launched its Home Office Immigration Enforcement project, on behalf of the Home Office, in August 2021. This project extended the use of tagging using GPS tags to Foreign National Offenders who are subject to deportation proceedings. HMPPS rolled out standard fitted tags on schedule, but both it and G4S faced challenges in developing non-fitted devices: removable watches...
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Inquiry recommendation
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R4 - PNC investment
Investment should be made available by Government to secure the PNC's medium and long-term future, given its importance to intelligence-led policing and to the criminal justice system as a whole. I note that PITO has begun this work.
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Inquiry recommendation
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R2 - PLX system introduction
The PLX system, which flags that intelligence is held about someone by particular police forces, should be introduced in England and Wales by 2005.
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Inquiry recommendation
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AG-8 - MASTS Vehicle Identification Equipment
The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) should consider whether to recommend equipping unmarked vehicles used in Mobile Armed Support to Surveillance (MASTS) interventions with apparatus designed to identify to subjects that those conducting such interventions are police officers - specifically (i) the illumination of previously concealed blue lights on unmarked police vehicles; and/or (ii) integral loudspeaker systems that...
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Committee recommendation
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#20 - Proceed cautiously with Central Asian counter-terrorism cooperation, focusing on ethical military training
The Government should proceed with caution when engaging with Central Asian governments on the issue of terrorism and military to military cooperation. The threat of terrorism is often used as an excuse for tightening the authoritarian grip of the state on its own people, opening the door for Chinese surveillance technology with the potential for misuse. Moreover, there...
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Inquiry recommendation
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R9 - Key principles of information management
The Code of Practice must clearly set out the key principles of good information management (capture, review, retention, deletion and sharing), having regard to policing purposes, the rights of the individual and the law.
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IMB recommendation
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Wormwood Scrubs (2020)
Can the Governor ensure that efforts are made to increase the wearing and use of BWVCs, especially in light of the minister’s response to our last annual report, in which she stated, in June 2020, that: ‘full active use of cameras is required as part of the readiness assessment for the introduction of PAVA’?
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Inquiry recommendation
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ANG-15 - Remove barriers to reporting sexual offences by colleagues
With immediate effect, all police forces should take action to understand and confront the barriers that police officers and staff face when reporting sexual offences committed by a person that they work with or in the workplace. This is in order to encourage victims, who are also police officers or police staff, to come forward and submit complaints,...
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Inquiry recommendation
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R7 - Court results PNC transfer
The transfer of responsibility for inputting court results onto the PNC should be reaffirmed by the Court Service and the Home Office and, if possible, accelerated ahead of the 2006 target. At the least, that deadline must be met.
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R6 - PNC data quality inspection
The quality and timeliness of PNC data input should be routinely inspected as part of the Policing Performance Assessment Framework (PPAF) and the Baseline Assessments, which are being developed by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC).
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