Police watchdog finds widespread failings remain in sex crime recording
Rape Crisis says findings are cause for “grave concern”
Rape Crisis says findings are cause for “grave concern”
Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy at centre of criminal inquiry
Only after a woman complains is allegation recorded as a ‘crime of sexual assault’.
Key findings
Despite soaring reports of rape, for the past decade detections, prosecutions and convictions in rape cases have not kept pace – and attrition, the rate at which cases are dropped during a police investigation, has gone from bad to worse.
Only around 15% of rapes recorded by police as crimes last year resulted in rape charges being brought against a suspect. And fewer were convicted.
Two thirds of rape complaints drop out of the criminal justice system before they are sent to prosecutors.
The situation is so bad that a former senior adviser at the Met Police says rape for many victims has been ‘decriminalised’.
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