Lack of ‘cultural awareness’ and ‘data gap’ leaves some ethnic minority victims of sexual crime at risk of honour-based abuse

6th January 2023Keith Potter, Editor, Policing Insight

A new joint investigation into the police response to ethnic minority victims of sexual abuse who may be at risk of honour-based abuse has found that inadequate ethnicity recording of victims has become an “intolerable problem”, while a lack of cultural understanding and awareness among police officers and staff has left victims facing “unacceptable” further risks, as Policing Insight’s Keith Potter reports.

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