London Assembly Tackling FGM Conference (police)
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Project Azure
The Metropolitan Police
response to Female
Genital Mutilation
Inspector Allen Davis
Partnership Team
Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child
Abuse Command
NPCC Strategy ‘Honour based abuse, forced marriage and FGM
policing strategy’ 2015 - 2018
Prevention: Making harmful practices dishonourable in our communities
using ‘community driven solutions’ (C.D.S.) to tackle generational cycle of
offending.
Protection: Keep people safe by removing, minimising or controlling risks
and preventing crime.
Prosecution: Bring more offenders to justice through conviction.
Partnership: Collaborating to create safer future for younger generations.
What can you do?
Home Office FGM eLearning Culturally sensitive language
Prevalence by community Professional curiosity
Share information
You can’t intervene in a problem that you
don’t understand…
•World Heath Organization has described FGM as a practice that “reflects a deep-rooted inequality between the sexes, and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women.”
•UK communities at risk of FGM include Somalis, Sudanese, Egyptians, Sierra Leoneans, Nigerians, Eritreans, Ethiopians, Gambians
•Non African communities at risk of FGM include Yemeni, Kurdish, Indonesian and Pakistani women.
•Estimated that 170,000 women and girls are living with FGM in the UK today and that 65,000 girls aged 13 and under are at risk of FGM.