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Campaign Priority 1 of 4
Public Safety
Safer streets, and police forces that answer for how they handle violence against women.
Women's safety
Ask any woman about the last year. She has a story.
I have mine. I was groped on the Tube and followed off a train, and strange men have come up to me with strange questions.
Every woman I know has noticed it getting worse, and police charging rates have collapsed.
Women in Britain deserve better than this.
Every woman deserves to walk home without holding her keys between her fingers, on the phone to someone, or carrying a hot drink.
What Sherrie is calling for
- Mandatory minimum sentences for sexual assault, stalking and violence against women, served in full with no suspended sentences
- Charging rates for rape and sexual assault restored to at least 1 in 3 within five years, with named accountability for every police force that falls short
- Specialist domestic abuse and sexual violence units in every police force, staffed by officers trained to take reports seriously and investigate them
- Lifetime registration and electronic monitoring for serious sexual offenders, with automatic deportation for foreign nationals convicted of these crimes
- Safer streets funding ring-fenced for lighting, CCTV, and visible patrols on the routes women actually walk home
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