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🗓️ 2 November 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:05.3 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.4 | Good morning and welcome to the programme. Have you ever heard of booty patrols? |
0:15.2 | No, me neither. The name refers, apparently, to the practice of unwarrensied stops of |
0:20.8 | cars driven by women. Some male police officers find pretty. |
0:26.2 | And it is one of the details in a new damning report out today by the police watchdog, |
0:30.2 | ordered by the government after the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving |
0:35.7 | police officer in March of last year. Hundreds of police officers who should have failed |
0:41.1 | vetting checks may now be in the job in England and Wales. Eight forces were looked at and |
0:47.8 | decisions on officers which were questionable at best have come out. Police leaders have |
0:53.9 | been criticised for allowing a prevalent culture of officers who are predatory towards women |
0:59.4 | to join and stay in the ranks. But the voices of women also wing out in today's report |
1:06.6 | because officers, staff and volunteers were surveyed for their experience of working |
1:11.8 | in the police and more than 10,000 answered the call. A huge response which has also been |
1:17.9 | noted and the details shared are worth pausing on. Senior male officers pursuing women in |
1:25.0 | lower ranks for sex via the work email system. Also at parties, viewing porn at work and |
1:32.8 | inviting others to look at it too. This is also on phones that have been seized and |
1:38.5 | are in police custody, but also looking at porn on computer systems at work too. Sending |
1:44.6 | porn to female colleagues phones, misogynistic comments about crime victims and the public |
1:51.3 | that they are meant to be policing, remember by consent. Of course there is much being |
1:56.7 | made of the record number of women now working in the police force. Nor is this a report |
2:02.2 | meant to paint all male police officers as the same. But it does give a window an important |
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