Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, February 2020
Recommendation date: 24 February 2020
Response due: 20 April 2020
Published: 24 August 2020
Domestic abuse
On 11 July 2019 Metropolitan Police Service officers attended an address in Crayford, after a call was made that a domestic incient was taking place in a flat. Police attended and spoke with a man and woman separately. The woman informed one of the officers that the man had choked her. The officer asked her a few minutes later whether there had been a fight and if anyone had been hurt. She said no. The officers left the woman with the man and took no further action. The woman was later assaulted by the man and sustained serious injuries.
Recommendations (1)
Recommendation 1
Accepted
Recommendation
The IOPC recommends that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) take steps to make Safeguarding teams and departments aware that special schemes can apply to serial perpetrators of abuse and should be used where appropriate to do so. The MPS use … Read more
Force Response
Accepted action: The MPS are satisfied that the existing MPS Special Schemes policy adequately provides for the creation of a special scheme in relation to an address in the circumstances outlined, i.e. long history of domestic abuse perpetrated against different … Read more