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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Where this theme appears
This theme appears across 9 independent accountability sources, so the source mix matters as much as the headline total.
18 inquiry recs
43 committee recs
1 HMICFRS rec
1 IOPC rec
12 IMB recs
12 DHR recs
11 LGO/SPSO decisions
2 CJINI reports
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Inquiry recommendations(18)
R9 — Key principles of information management
Recommendation: 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.
Gov response: The Working Group took the view that the Code itself needed to cover high-level principles relevant to information management, and that, as set out in Recommendation 9, this should include provisions relating to the capture, …
Accepted
R8 — Information management Code of Practice
Recommendation: 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.
Gov response: A draft Code of Practice on Information Management for the police has been introduced for consultation and will be implemented by June 2005. The Code sets out the high-level principles for information management and sharing …
Accepted
R7 — Court results PNC transfer
Recommendation: 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.
Gov response: The Home Office, the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA), ACPO, PITO and Criminal Justice IT (CJIT) have agreed that the preferred solution for inputting court results onto the PNC should be the electronic transfer of …
Accepted
R6 — PNC data quality inspection
Recommendation: 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).
Gov response: HMIC has fully incorporated PNC audit and inspection into the risk-assessed inspection regime supporting Baseline Assessment. The strengthened audit team is working to an updated set of protocols and the core performance measures have now …
Accepted
R5 — PNC Code of Practice implementation
Recommendation: 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.
Gov response: Ministers have agreed that the new statutory Code of Practice, which has been developed in association with NCPE, should come into force on 1 January 2005. The Code of Practice makes clear the requirements for …
Accepted
R4 — PNC investment
Recommendation: 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.
Gov response: The central information service, currently provided by the PNC, will remain at the heart of police information management and specific improvements are planned in addition to IMPACT. The new Code of Practice setting standards for …
Accepted
R3 — Police IT procurement review
Recommendation: The procurement of IT systems by the police should be reviewed to ensure that, wherever possible, national solutions are delivered to national problems.
Gov response: The independent review team is due to report its findings on stage 1 to Ministers by the end of February 2005. The findings of the review will be published.
Accepted
JB-15.3 — Document management system for firearms authorisation forms
Recommendation: In order to provide for efficacy and transparency, the NPCC and College of Policing should be tasked with providing a document management system for FA (and equivalent) forms. The system should allow for the auditing of completion and submission dates …
Gov response: The FA forms utilised by the MPS for command logging are derived from the national command logs first published in 2010 and revised in 2012. As noted above, the standards relating to command logging are …
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LAMI-104 — PITO to evaluate child protection IT systems for police forces
Recommendation: 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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R2 — PLX system introduction
Recommendation: The PLX system, which flags that intelligence is held about someone by particular police forces, should be introduced in England and Wales by 2005.
Gov response: In the interim, the Police Local Cross-Check system (PLX) is on track to provide an index of individuals about whom information is held by police forces. The first version of this (Interim or I-PLX) will …
Accepted
AG-8 — MASTS Vehicle Identification Equipment
Recommendation: 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 …
Gov response: 33. The NPCC have informed the Government that the National Mobile Armed Support to Surveillance (MASTS) role profile (National Resource Standard) addresses the first part of this recommendation. This requires forces to have three covert …
Accepted
DM-10 — Custodial sentences for data protection offences
Recommendation: Given the potential seriousness of such offences, it is recommended that the Government take an early opportunity to amend the Data Protection Act 2018 to provide for sentences of imprisonment for offenders.
Gov response: 2.4.7. In light of the Special Prosecutor’s conclusion that former DCS David Cook disclosed personal data in the sending of emails to a journalist, Michael Sullivan, the Panel recommended the introduction of custodial sentences for …
Not accepted
JB-15.18 — Mandatory CLIO system training for command officers
Recommendation: Training should be made mandatory for command officers in the use of the Computer Logging of Intelligence Operations (CLIO) system and the Serious Organised Crime Tasking and Briefing (SOCTAB) system (a firearms version of CLIO which has specific tabs created …
Gov response: This recommendation is addressed within the response to recommendations 3, 4 and 5.
Noted
R1 — National IT system for police intelligence
Recommendation: 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.
Gov response: There has been a comprehensive buy-in across all 43 police forces in England and Wales to the IMPACT (Information Management, Prioritisation, Analysis, Co-ordination and Tasking) programme, which will provide a national information-sharing system for police …
Accepted
ANG-15 — Remove barriers to reporting sexual offences by colleagues
Recommendation: 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 …
Gov response: However, the report today highlights the need for further action and the government, in tandem with policing partners, will thoroughly consider the recommendations made by Lady Elish and respond in full in due course.
Accepted
ANG-11 — Strengthen information-sharing practices
Recommendation: 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 …
Gov response: However, the report today highlights the need for further action and the government, in tandem with policing partners, will thoroughly consider the recommendations made by Lady Elish and respond in full in due course.
Accepted
ANG-1 — Specialist policy on investigating indecent exposure
Recommendation: At the earliest opportunity, and by September 2024 at the latest, police forces should ensure that they have a specialist policy on investigating all sexual offences, including so-called 'non-contact' offences, such as indecent exposure.
Gov response: However, the report today highlights the need for further action and the government, in tandem with policing partners, will thoroughly consider the recommendations made by Lady Elish and respond in full in due course.
Accepted
MAI-132 — Body-worn video for firearms officers
Recommendation: The Home Office, Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and the College of Policing should consider whether firearms officers should be equipped routinely with body-worn video cameras.
Gov response: Accepted in full
Accepted
Select committee recommendations(43)
#29 — Criminalise use of nudification apps as synthetic NCII and hold platforms accountable.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#26 — Ofcom's proposals should require companies to accept non-consensual intimate image hash matching.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#24 — Few platforms accept non-consensual intimate image hash matching technology.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#22 — Increase courts' use of deprivation orders to prevent perpetrators retaining intimate images.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#21 — Perpetrators of non-consensual intimate image abuse retain content-bearing devices post-conviction.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#20 — Produce joint guidance to improve police response and content takedown for intimate image abuse.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#19 — Police treatment of intimate image abuse victims demonstrates lack of understanding and misogyny.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#9 — Direct user-to-user and search engine services to utilise a registry of non-consensual intimate image content.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#8 — Create guidance for internet providers and web browsers on tackling non-consensual intimate image abuse.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#7 — Amend the Crime and Policing Bill to make possession of non-consensual intimate images an offence.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#6 — Justification to legally align NCII with CSAM to prompt provider action
Recommendation: 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)
Response attribution not verified
#5 — Ofcom's powers insufficient for timely removal of individual NCII abuse content
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#32 — Developing technology significantly changes abuse methods, integrating into most domestic abuse cases.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#31 — Tech-enabled violence against women and girls represents a rapidly evolving and increasing threat.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#7 — Enhance national policing system's capacity to monitor social media and support local forces.
Recommendation: 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)
Response attribution not verified
#6 — Insufficient national support for policing social media intelligence monitoring, especially on closed platforms.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#18 — Make tackling technology-facilitated abuse a priority across law enforcement and justice system
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#7 — Require DSIT to outline Online Safety Act's impact on children's safety and VAWG prevention.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#19 — Upskill law enforcement and improve crime data to enhance response to tech abuse
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#25 — Accept StopNCII.org hash matching technology as a matter of priority.
Recommendation: Google should accept the StopNCII.org hash matching technology as a matter of priority. (Recommendation, Paragraph 125)
Response attribution not verified
#3 — Amend Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme eligibility to include online sexual offence claims
Recommendation: 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)
Response attribution not verified
#2 — Fraud enforcement and prosecution must adapt to new online technologies.
Recommendation: 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.
Response attribution not verified
#20 — Convene cross-sector tech abuse working group to produce guidance and code of practice
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#51 — Ensure law enforcement and regulators are adequately resourced for harmful AI content response.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#24 — Police training needs review to reflect evolving technology-exploiting crime landscape.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#23 — Police training inadequately addresses technology-exploiting fraud crimes and evolving offending methods.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#14 — Establish a taskforce to assess workplace technology implications and labour law enforcement effectiveness.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#20 — Proceed cautiously with Central Asian counter-terrorism cooperation, focusing on ethical military training
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#5 — UK's lax financial crime enforcement enables Central Asian kleptocratic autocracies
Recommendation: Illicit finance is an integral component of autocratic rule in Central Asian countries. The UK is a key node for Central Asian capital flight and a leading enabler of its corrupt elites. While the UK is careful not to interfere …
Response attribution not verified
#17 — Extend legal definition of intimate image to include religious or cultural attire removal.
Recommendation: The Government should extend the legal definition of an intimate image to include images where “because of the person’s religious or cultural background, the person commonly wears particular attire of religious or cultural significance when in public; and the material …
Response attribution not verified
#13 — Establish an Online Safety Commission to support individuals and oversee non-consensual intimate image content registry.
Recommendation: The Government should set up an Online Safety Commission, similar to the eSafety Commission in Australia, with a focus on support for individuals. The new Commission would act as a trusted flagger of NCII content on behalf of individuals that …
Response attribution not verified
#12 — Regulatory framework lacks a statutory body to support non-consensual intimate image abuse victims.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#11 — Introduce a swift, inexpensive statutory civil process for non-consensual intimate image abuse.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#10 — Expand the Data Bill's solicitation clause to criminalise all image-based abuse offences.
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#2 — Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme's offence list outdated, excludes online harms
Recommendation: 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. …
Response attribution not verified
#21 —
Recommendation: 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 …
Response attribution not verified
#8 — Government urged to update thinking on computer evidence in legal proceedings.
Recommendation: We ask the Government for an update on its thinking in relation to the use of computer evidence in criminal and/or civil proceedings and to prioritise this area of work at the Law Commission if it has not already done …
Response attribution not verified
#8 — Close opportunities for Russian sanctions evasion and reduce Central Asia's economic dependence
Recommendation: Sanctions evasion by Russia via Central Asian states is a real and significant threat to the international measures against Russia’s renewed illegal invasion of Ukraine. 56 Countries at crossroads: UK engagement in Central Asia The kleptocratic nature of Central Asian …
Response attribution not verified
#7 — Implement comprehensive measures to combat Central Asian illicit finance and corruption
Recommendation: We recommend that the Government: a) Offers assistance to each of the Central Asian countries in building their domestic capacity to tackle corruption and money laundering as a contribution to their economic development. b) Encourages the National Crime Agency to …
Response attribution not verified
#14 — Discuss Online Safety Commission proposals with Revenge Porn Helpline for potential collaboration or expanded role.
Recommendation: The UK already has an excellent organisation doing some of this work in the form of the Revenge Porn Helpline. The Government should discuss the proposals set out above with the RPH to determine what relationship the RPH could have …
Response attribution not verified
#8 — Lead efforts to resolve policy issues for safe deployment of self-driving vehicles by 2025.
Recommendation: The Government has put good structures in place, but it is not enough just to participate in or facilitate conversations about unresolved policy issues, including access to data, verifying roadworthiness, legal liability and insurance implications. If self-driving vehicles are to …
Response attribution not verified
#7 — Connected vehicles pose new complex challenges for safety, data access, and legal liability.
Recommendation: Connected vehicles pose new dangers, which the law must evolve to meet. A safety- led culture will require wide access to data, and this must be a higher priority than commercial confidentiality. Ensuring self-driving vehicles are roadworthy will be more …
Response attribution not verified
#15 — Explore funding options for the Online Safety Commission, including a levy on relevant bodies.
Recommendation: The Government should explore whether the funding for such a Commission could be generated, at least in part, by a levy on bodies within scope of the OSA on a similar basis to that which exists in other regulated environments. …
Response attribution not verified
IMB individual recommendations(12)
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’?
Governor / Director
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.
Governor / Director
Wormwood Scrubs (2020)
Will the minister consider adopting the recommendation of the CPT (paragraph 58) to amend the terms of Prison Service Instruction 04/2017, to make it mandatory for BWVCs to be issued, worn and turned on by all prison staff who may have to use force against prisoners?
Ministry of Justice
In Progress
High Down (2021)
How can more staff be encouraged to wear and use body-worn video cameras? (See section 4.5.)
Governor / Director
In Progress
High Down (2021)
What steps does the Prison Service intend to take to ensure there are sufficient body-worn video cameras and that they are worn by all officers who have contact with prisoners, and used in accordance with PSI 04/2017? (See section 4.5.)
HMPPS
In Progress
Garth (2021)
It is advised that the prison should be financed to provide sufficient body worn cameras. Their practices should be reviewed and revised.
HMPPS
Swansea (2023)
Issues remain around The Big Word and body worn video cameras (BWVCs). The Board feels that greater use of both is needed.
Governor / Director
Brinsford (2024)
Concern about lack of body worn video camera use and faulty equipment.
Governor / Director
Implemented
Dovegate (2020)
Ensure that working body-worn cameras are available to every officer on the CSU and SRU, and that they are worn and visible outside clothing at all times.
Governor / Director
Implemented
Swansea (2021)
The early activation of body-worn cameras (BWCs) should continue to be encouraged (see paragraphs 4.4.2 and 4.4.3).
Governor / Director
Featherstone (2023)
The use of body worn video cameras (BWVCs) needs to be increased to ensure staff are not subject to unfounded allegations.
Governor / Director
Standford Hill (2024)
Technological solutions to monitor prisoners when outside the prison should be investigated.
HMPPS
In Progress
LGO / SPSO decisions(11)
21-003-477 — Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council
Summary: Mr B says the Council does not support him despite being the victim of bullying and harassment by neighbours, instead it encourages complaints of anti-social behaviour about his household and does not deal with complaints his household makes. The Council is correct to investigate concerns it receives, regardless of …
LGO (Local Government & …
Environment And Regulation
Upheld
Mar 2022
20-013-807 — Rother District Council
Summary: Ms B complained about the way the Council handled complaints of noise nuisance made about her. She further complained about the way the Council responded to her complaints. She said the Council’s actions caused her considerable stress and meant she considered moving house. There was fault by the Council …
LGO (Local Government & …
Environment And Regulation
Upheld
Mar 2022
22-011-035 — London Borough of Haringey
Summary: We will not investigate this complaint about the Council’s response to removing fly-tipping and graffiti in Mr X’s area. There is insufficient evidence of fault which would warrant an investigation.
LGO (Local Government & …
Environment And Regulation
Dec 2022
23-016-233 — Birmingham City Council
Summary: There was no fault by the Council. The Council has investigated complaints about anti-social behaviour. It has concluded the noise complaint was not anti-social behaviour but mechanical noise from the neighbour’s boiler. The Council has repaired the tenants boiler but Mr X says that there is still an intermittent …
LGO (Local Government & …
Environment And Regulation
Not Upheld
Aug 2024
23-018-532 — London Borough of Hillingdon
Summary: Miss X complained the Council failed to respond to her reports of a neighbour’s anti-social behaviour, and complained about the way the Council handled her complaint. Miss X said it caused unnecessary and avoidable distress, upset and frustration. We find the Council at fault, and this caused injustice. The …
LGO (Local Government & …
Environment And Regulation
Upheld
Aug 2024
25-008-671 — Hyndburn Borough Council
Summary: We will not investigate this complaint about the Council’s decision to issue a warning following reports of noise nuisance. There is not enough evidence of fault to justify our involvement.
LGO (Local Government & …
Environment And Regulation
Nov 2025
25-008-665 — London Borough of Redbridge
Summary: We will not investigate Mr X’s complaint about the content of a Public Spaces Protection Order because Mr X had a right to take the matter to court. We will not investigate the process by which the Council made the order because there is insufficient evidence of fault.
LGO (Local Government & …
Environment And Regulation
Nov 2025
22-004-745 — London Borough of Lewisham
Summary: We will not investigate this complaint about a penalty charge notice as there is insufficient evidence of fault by the Council.
LGO (Local Government & …
Transport And Highways
Jul 2022
22-004-647 — Transport for London
Summary: We will not investigate this complaint about a Penalty Charge Notice. This is because it is reasonable to expect Mr Y to appeal to the Traffic Enforcement Centre and then the London Tribunals.
LGO (Local Government & …
Transport And Highways
Jul 2022
22-004-267 — London Borough of Redbridge
Summary: We cannot investigate this complaint about a penalty charge notice which the complainant says was issued when his vehicle was cloned. This is because the complaint does not meet the tests in our Assessment Code on how we decide which complaints to investigate. The law provides a right of …
LGO (Local Government & …
Transport And Highways
Jul 2022
22-008-087 — City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Summary: We will not investigate Mrs X’s complaint that she was scammed when paying for her parking in a Council car park. This is because we cannot investigate complaints about crime.
LGO (Local Government & …
Transport And Highways
Oct 2022
Domestic Homicide Reviews(12)
Oxford — recommendation 9
Thames Valley Police to raise awareness amongst front line staff in relation to the potential serious impact of emotional blackmail incidents involving the threat of publicly circulating intimate images of people.
Thames Valley Police
Thames Valley Police
Kingston upon Thames — recommendation 41
Explore whether to advise adults in possible domestic abuse situations to delete emails so that email cannot be read by others
NSPCC
Gateshead — recommendation 9
Home Office to work with telecommunication providers and national stalking abuse experts to review measures and advice to reduce harm from digitally-assisted stalking;
Home Office
Home Office
Gateshead — recommendation 8
Home Office to consider the legal and social impact of the non-regulation of spyware in respect of domestic abuse and stalking victims;
Home Office
Home Office
Kent — recommendation 13.4
In liaison with domestic abuse support providers raise the awareness of the potential misuse of Tracking Apps that are routinely installed on mobile telephones and other devices with potential victims and service providers, the focus to be particularly in terms of Stalking and Harassment. The Kent County Community Safety Partnership …
Kent County Community Safety Partnership | …
Dorset — recommendation 6
The Domestic Abuse Commissioners Office to review the Risk Assessments currently available to ensure they are up to date with the use of technology.
Domestic Abuse Commissioners Office
Portsmouth — recommendation 7
The CSP to consider awareness raising campaigns with regards to technology related abuse for the general public and ensure that information on help seeking organisations is disseminated amongst professionals through training programmes and on communication portals.
CSP
Portsmouth — recommendation 6
The CSP considers whether to recommend the promotion of Report Harmful Content Charity for specialist commissioned services responding to domestic abuse and sexual violence.
CSP
Swindon — recommendation 2
That Community Safety Partnerships embed within their Domestic Abuse Strategies that IDVAs and DV practitioners receive training on legislation and practice relating to stalking and coercive control .This training should encompass technical abuse including the use of security and covert cameras, listening devices, vehicle tracking equipment and mobile phone apps.
Swindon Community Safety Partnership | Home …
Home Office
Stafford — recommendation 20.6
For partners to work together to better understand the continual abuse, such as that experienced by the victim, that can be perpetrated through social media and other such channels.
Staffordshire Women’s Aid | Partners
Croydon — recommendation 7.2.5
That Safer Croydon Community Safety Partnership reviews awareness and signposting across all membership to ensure services are available to women experiencing a wide range of violence against women and girls from men, including sexual voyeurism, stalking, and technology abuse.
Safer Croydon Community Safety Partnership
Croydon — recommendation 7.2.8
That Safer Croydon Community Safety Partnership should develop awareness around a wider spectrum of abuse against women and girls. This should take into account that women can be subject to gender-based violence and stalking outside of intimate relationships.
Safer Croydon Community Safety Partnership