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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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Karla | Targeted by a police officer after reporting male violence
I just did what he asked me. This officer committed a degrading sexual act. I feel like he targeted me. I was living alone and he just wanted to use me like I am trash. Constabulary: Cleveland Police Timespan: 1990s Did you report it to the police?: No Your
R.C | S.A when a kid
I was street sleeping in Delamere Park in Manchester as a teenager in about 92/93 and was sexually assaulted by a policeman while his colleague stood guard. Constabulary: Greater Manchester Police Timespan: Around 1993 Did you report it to the police?: No Your ethnicity: White British Have you experienced suicidality
Uncomfortable with Police | They Think they’re Untouchable
I’ve worked in Police environments or directly with Police colleagues for 5 years and the experience has generally been awful. I’ve experienced a range of behaviours from physically inappropriate such as standing too close to me to gaslighting and sexually inappropriate comments. I’ve had both Police officers and staff constantly
Jane | Female officer sexually assaulted by colleague
Hello, I would just like to share my experience. I am a serving police officer of nearly 19 years. I got sexually assaulted around 9 years ago by a colleague whilst at work (I am a surveillance officer). We were deployed together in a pub, he drunk 8 pints of
Susan | Stalking
It began with sexual harrassment online from an officer I was talking to. After I blocked him, he kept making new profiles and the same pattern of filthy messages would occur. I just kept blocking him figuring he would get bored. I was wrong, he showed up at my house,
Ex police staff | Raped by police officer stoned on stolen weed
I was staying at a police officer’s home who I’d known for years and who I thought was a friend. We stayed up late watching music videos then I was so tired I went to bed on an airbed on the floor in his room. He stayed up smoking weed
Charlotte | Sexual assault on a firearms course
I had worked very hard to build my reputation and successfully apply for a very male dominated firearms department. I was the only female on the 9 week residential firearms course. In general I was treated well on the course by the instructors apart from one who took a dislike
Poppy | PCSO Colleague
PCSO colleague [redacted for legal reasons] sent pictures of his genitalia to female PCSO colleagues. He was given ‘advice’ by [senior rank], after I made anonymous report. On a night out PCSO colleague [redacted for legal reasons] sexually assaulted a female PCSO colleague. Female PCSO too scared to report, leaving her
Beth | Bullied out of county x2
Watched your report, of how women who TRY to report rape are spoken to. Sadly I tried but detectives response was it was all a waste of tax payers money! Couldn’t believe my ears. So I pursued it but their determination to brush it under the carpet prevailed. I was
Redrosa | Sexually assaulted at my place of work by a serving officer sent to help
I was 19 or 20 years old. I am now 53. I worked part time in a shop and shared a flat in town with [redacted for legal reasons]. This particular Saturday they had gone home for the weekend for a night out with friends. On the Saturday night,
Receiving inappropriate videos from a Police Officer | Receiving inappropriate videos from a Police Officer
I was a new Police Constable within the force, another officer who I knew from college, added me on Snapchat. To begin with, he would ask how the job was going, he then turned the conversation sexual, telling me he was ‘horny’ and asking if wanted to watch him ‘play’?.
Ms P | Attempt rape and stalking by supervisor
It was frowned upon to be a tattle tell, back in the day, so I didn’t. Someone told on my behalf, I’ve never known who. A police night out went wrong for me, a supervisor (unpopular and a lot older than me) wanted to phone for a taxi and asked
Anne | Police Officer Attending a Complaint of Assault Against his Friend and Intimidating Complainant
I was assaulted by a male relative who grabbed me round the throat and tried to lift me off the ground. He had installed himself in my mother’s home, declared himself her next of kin and carer, and blocked all of her friends, relatives, and neighbours from seeing her. She
Newquay Girl | Unwanted Harassment
I was a special constable and I saw far too much of dishonest serving police officers, this includes drink driving, beatings and reports of drug finds suddenly being significantly less than what was initially reported. Personally a traffic officer from Bodmin decided to stalk and harass me, parking outside my
Charlotte | Domestic Abuse.
I lived with a serving police officer for 11yrs, we had a child together and we both had other children from previous relationships. My older children lived with us. He was verbally and physically abusive. I visited A & E depts on a number of occasions and also stayed at
BabyNewt | Ex police officer, now serving [redaction made for legal reasons], anally raped me.
I met this man [redaction made for legal reasons] when he contacted me and expressed an intention to work with a greenbelt protection group I belonged to. He had retired from the police service a couple of years previously. He used his [redacted for legal reasons] email and phone to
X | Charmed into affair then raped
I met a senior officer through community work who charmed me into a casual affair. I was a willing participant initially but when I said it was over, he raped me. He said he would decide when it would be over, not me. There was no point reporting it, he
Julie | He asked to meet for coffee + promised to make my investigation go smoothly
I was arrested [redacted for legal reasons] and brought into a police station in a van. Yet two of the male officers who were at my house followed me on Twitter before I’d even left the police station. I was stunned to see the notifications on my phone when I
Charlie | Preyed on when vulnerable
I reported my controlling ex to Police after he was threatening my job etc and two males arrived because I had told police I was suicidal. When they left, one continued to text me and kept complimenting me, asking what gym I went to and if he could follow me
Hannah | Casual misogyny
This is not a story of abuse or assault but just the alarming racism and misogyny normalised in the police force. My car broke down on a high speed road and the RAC advised I call the police first. One officer was so polite to me on the phone with
Mother to victim | Police officer told my daughter to go to a derelict building to pick up her lost driving licence
My 20 something year old daughter lost her driving licence at Nottinghill Carnival. She was called by a police officer to say he had found it and collect it from an address. She went to the address and it was a derelict office building. When she arrived she called me