Tackling violence against women and girls will be treated like the crackdown on terror and organised crime, safeguarding minister Jess Phillips told the Commons as she unveiled the government’s longawaited VAWG strategy.
She said that new forensic technology will be used to track down rapists and sex offenders, with police forces using “the same data driven approach to tracking offenders that we apply to terrorists and serious organised criminals”.
Promising to make “women and girls safe at last”, Ms Phillips promised that “change is coming”.
She said it will take “all of society to step up and end the epidemic of abuse and violence that shames our country”, adding: “The challenge is great, but I have never felt more confident that we can rise to it than I do today”.
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