Cops face mandatory stalking training after woman, 23, murdered by stalker who was reported to police
by tylerthe-theatre
Cops face mandatory stalking training after woman, 23, murdered by stalker who was reported to police
by tylerthe-theatre
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Mandatory training in how to deal with a situation where someone tells them they are in fear of thier life, able to give the name of the perspective perpetrator, and after finding a bag full of his weapons? Yeah – I reckon that’s a pretty good idea. Dear lord.
I’ve said it before, but stalking as an offence seems to be a real blind spot for a lot of cops and police staff. It’s easily one of the highest risk behaviours, and yet stalking in it’s basic format is a summary only offence – 6 months max sentence.
This article is talking about specialist stalking training, not just basic training about stalking.
Forces struggle to train officers to use blue lights and tasers, so I’d love to know how they’re going to do this
Horrific story. Is it a cultural thing within the police that stalking like this isn’t taken seriously? Even if the police think the risk of being attacked is low, being stalked would prompt a great deal of personal suffering and paranoia about your own safety.
I’m not trying to defend the police, they’ve admitted failings, but……
“The police didn’t put the case as high risk. If they’d advised her that it was, because of what Sellars had done, she’d have acted totally differently and we wouldn’t have let her go anywhere on her own.”
That reads, to me, that her father doesn’t think she should have acted differently, because the Police didn’t tell her to!
They need mandatory human being training from the sounds of it.
The problem is a lot of police are the same nasty toxic dudes who they would need to arrest
ONLY Mandatory training?
So that puts it on par with ‘policing spicy tweets online’.
Guaranteeing future victims will have their complaints kicked into the long grass and ignored until they end up murdered.
I mean a lot of cops are already stalkers so I don’t think they need any more training.
Its Derbyshire constabulary, they’re fucking useless.
Have a look around youtube at their inspector.
Police can only really be as good as their training. If there’s an obvious deficit, it’s only correct to remedy that. the question should really be, why was there such a deficit in the first place?
Mandatory training is a start, but they also need to start taking stalking and predatory behaviour much more seriously.
I know far too many women who have had a bad experience when they’ve reported stalking to the police. The police have dismissed and belittled them or just treated them like shit.
I don’t think the problem has been a lack of training. I think the problem is that the officers they dealt with were arseholes who enjoy mistreating vulnerable women. And the number of different people I know who have had the same experience suggests that those arseholes are pretty prevalent in the police!
Why are the police so unbothered about stalking? I had an incident when I was 20 years old I was getting stalked off a boy that was a friend of a friend. He would sit on a bench opposite my house and stare through my window, ring me off no caller ID so much that there was no point of me having my phone on as I couldn’t use it and would know where I had been throughout the day/what I had bought from the shop etc I was terrified. Reported it to the police because I had answered the phone a few times and told him to fuck off there was nothing they could do until he did something to me.
He ended up chasing me into my house trying to attack me with a hammer with and took off as soon as I rang the police, because he didn’t have the hammer on him and they said it was his word against mine nothing came of it. Luckily my stepbrother managed to scare him off or I don’t know what would of happened to me.
Everyone here has some strong opinions on the matter, but no one is actually giving any solutions beyond empty platitudes or spouting anecdotes.
Can anyone here actually recommend what course of action should be taken as standard, taking account of legal and logistical limitations currently in place?
Holy shit, I genuinely thought that was my ex-husband’s affair partner for a second there. The fact that it wouldn’t totally surprise me should make it clear why he’s an ex.
Can anyone actually answer me what the police actually do turn up to these days?
The list seems pretty short, and I know dealing with hit and runs are not on the agenda lately too, despite someone I know being involved in one, tracking down the vehicle and reporting it and the police still won’t come out.
funny the amount of coppers coming in to “well to be faiiiiiir!”
maybe spend less time on reddit explaining why, “in fairness” this is okay, and maybe idk, do your fucking jobs?
There was a TV series about them a few years back. The problem is. The suspects civil rights can’t be infringed? They can still drive past still going out into the public etc. so it’s either we tag them? Lock them up or put a copper on them?
I feel like this is kind of like giving fire inspector training to an unstable pyromaniac. Or teaching surgical anatomy to a kid who used to chop up pigeons for fun.
Cops? The English language has about 15 years left.