Violence Against Women & Girls

Agreed on 23 July 2025. Updated on 23 July 2025

VAWG is a strategic priority and we are committing to a local action plan which sets out our activity against national frameworks. Our approach is aligned to the three objectives in the NPCC and College of Policing’s ‘Police action to combat violence against women and girls’:

improve trust and confidence in policing

relentlessly pursuing perpetrators

creating safer spaces

Actions

12 July 2025

Members of your local neighbourhood team have been distributing and promoting the use of tools and apps that are created to keep people safe. This includes:

the launch of the Safer streets app and patrolling reported areas

promoting Hollie Guard app

distributing personal panic alarms