This week Rape Crisis shared a platform with the Met’s Assistant Commissioner John Yates, Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker and Dr Alyson Jones of the Lancashire SAFE (Sexual Assault Forensic Examination) centre at a conference about improving police responses to rape.
The gathering could not have come at a better time. Although it was planned much earlier in the year, the regional conviction rates just published by Fawcett earlier shone a light on the urgent need to improve police responses.
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