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UK’s VAWG policing lead warns: ‘We can’t arrest our way out of what is a societal problem’

SUBSCRIBE 29th August 2022Keith Potter, Editor, Policing Insight
Deputy Chief Constable Maggie Blyth, the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead on violence against women and girls (VAWG), has warned that long-lasting change can’t be achieved by police alone and will take more than a decade; in an interview with PolicingTV she also highlighted the ‘difficult conversations’ that police leaders need to have around inappropriate behaviour, and the potential of Operation Soteria to improve the rate of rape convictions, as Keith Potter reports.

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