300 people tell BBC of police misogyny and racism after undercover investigation

Following a Panorama undercover probe, more than 300 people have contacted the BBC with allegations of bigotry, mistrust, and bullying of victims by police. Over seven months of undercover filming revealed evidence of bigotry, misogyny, and police officers celebrating in the use of force at one of London's busiest police stations. One of the main topics among hundreds of people in touch was misogyny when they reported domestic assault and sexual assault, with some women claiming their rape to police
working hard to establish a culture based on integrity and trust" as well as expanding vetting and misconduct procedures.was like being assaulted again. The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) said in reaction to the latest reports that it was
We've talked to many of the women who contacted us through Your Voice, Your BBC News, to stories of mistreatment, whose careers have spanned England from rural counties to large cities. To protect their identities, we've changed their names. According to her, a police officer allegedly told Joanna to grow a pair
after she reported being punched in the chest by her partner several months ago. When he returned home and angrily assaulted her, she says her partner had been partying heavily when he arrived home and stabbed her. She arrived at the local police station in tears.
My face had a bruise from the punch, and one of the officers looked at me as if I was exaggerating the whole thing,I was devastated, and the police made it ten times worse.
she said.He told me to grow a pair. followed by a chuckle. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. It was so frustrating to go there in the first place, and then I wished I hadn't.
One woman was compelled to contact the BBC by a scene Panorama filmed a Metropolitan Police officer dismissing a pregnant woman's allegations of rape and domestic violence. That's what she says
on her account to a coworker. Ava was also pregnant when she left her intimate partner, who, according to her, assaulted and assaulte her repeatedly. She said the officers she encountered that night were treated and treated her well, she would never return to the police. She was distraught that they did not believe her, telling her that nobody gets assaulted more than once.
It was like being raped all over again,she said.
What they put me through was worse than what I was going through before.
Ava claims that any evidence that might have backed her case was wilfully dismissed
and she was told that it is just your word against him
without CCTV evidence of an attack. She claims that being a black woman made it worse.
They asked why I thought he was doing it to me,The color of my skin made everything against me. Both misogynist and racist were misographical and racial, as well as how dismissive and mocking they were.
Sickening remarksas if I was the cause, as yelph, if you'd brought it all on yourself.
We'll root out those unfit to serve the public," she said.will not be tolerated by the government, according to police Minister Sarah Jones, who pleaded with people to report them. According to her, police chiefs have been given new authority to discipline officers who have committed gross misconduct.
Claire, a second woman who had coerced her for 12 years, told us how she survived but found that police didn't want to get involved because she broke court orders not to intervene. Despite an injunction prohibiting her from entering her house and locking her out on one occasion, her ex husband took her home and locked her out. According to her, it took the police more than seven hours to arrive, but then,
I became even more afraid and isolated after speaking to the police. Claire said it's a boys' club, with a network of police stations, detective services, and county lines. "I would never call the police, and I'm afraid he'll find me and turn up.they just stood laughing and chatting with him. She and her three children were then forced to stay with a friend for months.
The College of Policing introduced a Domestic Abuse Matters training course in 2016. It is used by 37 out of 44 police forces in England and Wales to change the way they deal with sexual and domestic violence victims. One of the NPCC and College of Policing's violence against women and girls is to combat misogyny and misogony among officers, according to the NI and College Of Policy's Violence against Women and Girls. Helen Millichap, deputy commissioner of violence against women and girls, told the BBC that police chiefs were working with survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault cases to continue to improve education,
Officers must be able to report misogyny and sexism in policing,with a primary emphasis on first responders' understanding of the dynamics of abuse and their empathy with victims.
having a huge effect in identifying and dismissing those who should not be involved in detecting According to one of the women who called in, after watching the Panorama show, she was stunned that nothing had changed in the decades since she was assaulted as a child.she said, but that enhanced vetting and misconduct procedures were
part of the problem. "I knew I must be one of thousands, but I wasn't the only one on Panorama. They made me feel I was.I've never had a night without a nightmare as a result, I've buried a lot of what the police officers asked for. The woman, who is now in her 40s, described her to me as