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Police Me Too has been set up by a victim/survivor
Amplifying the voices of women and girls who were abused by police instead of protected.
Each and every one of us deserves to be heard.
So, let’s show every police force that it isn’t just ‘one bad apple’, but their culture. We need structural and systemic changes to address the institutionalised misogyny and the closing of ranks. We need it to change. Now.
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*Please note that stories submitted here are moderated so it could take a little time before we publish them to the site – please bear with us!
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
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
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
StopPoliceBrutality | Police Harassment,Raids,illegal arrests, surveillance, police brutality UK
My story started with an illegal arrest of breaching a family court order, a malicious report by my own abusive family. Police put me on the Police national computer database and portrayed me as a criminal. Then violent police swat raids began at my home just after I gave birth
Pollie | Failure & ignorance of SA safeguarding & DV
From the age of 6/7 I was SA as a child. At age 9 SS & police were involved due to another family member making a report to the police by my perpetrator. I was separated from him but somehow he had access & threatened if I said anything I’d
Freya’s speech at FiLiA Conference 2022 on the panel for police-perpetrated abuse with Q&A.
The Inquiry heard repeatedly how institutions prioritised their own reputations, and those of individuals within them, above the protection of children. That’s what the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published in their concluding report on Thursday. This was a statutory public inquiry held under the Inquiries Act.The police, though.
Your stories | To the brave women with the strongest hearts
I have been reading all of your stories for the last 5 hours (it is now 02:54am) these stories have filled my heart and overwhelmed my mind. Tonight I have read the most difficult real life stories, I have ever heard and I believe every word I have read; it
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
| 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
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
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
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
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
Jane Doe | Sexual Assault at my home by an on duty police [senior rank redacted]
We live in a house with a pool, my former best friend and her husband had been and used the pool the week before (I didn’t go in the pool). A week later she messaged me to ask if they could come over again and then he arrived on his
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
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
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
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.
Brooke | Controlling [Senior Rank redacted]
My story was recently covered by the press so I am not afraid to speak in detail. I met him on OKcupid and he hailed himself as a hero and a protector but he was anything but. He was a sex pest and I soon fell pregnant. (His refusal to
Stroke victim a decade | Just wouldn’t stop
I was a lone parent who’d had a stroke and had 3 children. My son was in trouble with the police often but this officer, who knew that I’d had a stroke took it apon himself to take me “under his wing”. He would come to my house often on
| Sexual assaults
When I was early 20’s and fairly new to police I was a minority being female, I was young, thin, ok figure. I think the fact I was female was enough for the boys I worked with. I was a serving police officer on the front line. I nearly lost