Your stories

Claire | Abusive partner

Details of SA and r**e Love bombed in the beginning with gifts and “I love you” weeks after we met. He was coercive and controlling with sex very early on, was often guilted or pressured into performing when I didn’t want to, despite knowing my history with abuse (or actually

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Bex |

I’m not ‘woke’. I’m not a prude. I can take a joke. Joining the Police, I thought I was joining a professional organisation. I couldn’t have been more wrong. It’s a toxic culture. It’s a boys club, not what you know but who you know. And they all protect each

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Truth. | Am I the victim here?

It was a typical girls night out, enjoying the music and drinks flowing. During the end of the night I noticed my bag was missing, with my money and phone. I searched everywhere, whilst my friends were chatting with the bouncers. I had one last attempt to search going back

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Morag | Illegal entry and assault by officers

On the [redacted for legal reasons]. Two officers came to my door. Entered without a warrant or permission. This was to arrest my daughter who does not live with me. Officer [redacted for legal reasons] then attempted to grab my daughter (there are stairs behind my front door). Because she

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HannahC | You can’t make it up….

I was arrested in 2022 after asking for help twice because of what someone had done to me, from two different forces and was ignored. In custody, I was taunted and treated horrifically by the custody staff. They mocked me, turned my call button off so I couldn’t get water

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| Bias and victim blaming Met

I was sexually assaulted by a police officer. He told them it was consensual and they failed to check basic facts from his account that would have been impossible and so showed he was clearly lying. They were only concerned with my credibility and, even though more people came forward

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staff | sexual assault at work

I worked in an open plan office which had a big range of people of different teams and type of work going on. There were little offices to the sides. An officer asked to speak to me about something which wasn’t an unusual occurrence. We were friends I thought and

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z | Line manager

I’m a constable and there was a life threatening incident where we had to use physical force to arrest a violent suspect who had injured police officers. During the incident I misplaced some equipment and my line manager threatened to get me under an investigation regarding professional standards having no

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The Bird | Still suffering

As a Senior ranking Special Constable as well as Civilian Staff I had a good all round knowledge of what “The Boys” were like. How wrong was I. My perpetrator was a Senior Ranking Police Officer who for eighteen months made my life hell, drove me to the brink of

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Surviour37 | The scapegoat

Firstly I have a learning difficulty after years of abuse as a child so sorry if I make mistakes. I was sexually abused age 4 repetitively as my mum was sex worker leaving with her pimps and punters for weeks. Also she neglected me as newborn leaving me alone. The

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Anon | Met sexual offences teams that covered up reports

This is about what happens when try and report predatory abuse and hidden corrupt and violent policies used to try stop reporting. My story can be replicated by the thousands. It’s on public record that Met officers from both Southwark and Camden & Islington Sapphire sexual offences team ( SOIT

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Sarah | Abused For Reporting Abuse

I married a police officer 15 years my senior at the age of 23. Psychological abuse was daily with being woken in the early hours with allegations of leaving doors unlocked or altering the heating. I had to reduce my hours at work to accommodate the grilling schedule I was

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Lizzieemma | Nothing changes

Married at 18 to a Metropolitan Policeman I was continually beaten for five years – on several occasions hospitalised (I was too frightened to say how I got my injuries as he threatened “to shoot the kneecaps off of me” !) I managed to escape and go into hiding. He

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Rose | No where to turn

I was abused by a current serving police officer over many years. I was raped, pinned down, sexually assaulted. The thing I can remember most about that time, is the sound of my baby crying in the next room, and me being unable to get to her. I reported him.

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