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Emergency Services: Domestic Abuse

Asked by Calum MillerLiberal DemocratHome OfficeTabled Answered 11 March 2025UIN 36321

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what date her Department plans to embed domestic abuse specialists in 999 control rooms in the Thames Valley constabulary area.

Answered by Jess Phillips

Last month, we announced that external domestic abuse specialists have been embedded within the first five police force control rooms under Raneem's Law, to improve the police response to domestic abuse. These forces are Northumbria, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Humberside and West Midlands.

We intend to use learning from this first phase of implementation to develop our model and inform plans for further national rollout across all 43 forces in England and Wales, as soon as possible. Exact timings for this will be announced in due course.

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