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Project Bluestone: Academics support Avon and Somerset to deliver ‘gold standard’ approach to rape investigations

SUBSCRIBE 15th June 2021Sarah Gibbons, Contributing Editor, Policing Insight
Prosecution levels in rape cases nationally have been described as ‘pretty woeful’, and Avon and Somerset had one of the worst charging rates in England and Wales; Project Bluestone has seen the force working with leading academics to assess the problems and address the failings, an initiative which one senior officer said has put ‘fire in the belly of our investigators’, as Policing Insight Deputy Editor Sarah Gibbons reports.

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