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Hello, this episode of newscast comes to you from our studio in Westminster,

rather than our usual studio at Broadcasting House.

I've popped down here to see Chris Mason and also to do an

interview with a government minister, which you will hear right now on this episode.

Newscast.

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know it you have a bright future behind you I really don't know what he said at the

end of their sentence you know you did such a great job, you answered every question.

Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour.

Blimey.

Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio at Westminster and the reason I've popped down here to speak to a government minister is that the government today is responding to a report from the National Police Chiefs Council. In that report, the senior leadership of the police

across the UK look at the issue of violence against women and girls. That whole

series of different offenses that include rape, sexual assault, domestic abuse,

coercive control, modern slavery, and which the police are now treating at the same

level of priority as they treat terrorism and as part of

that process of shifting their priorities they've produced this report.

There are so many starting numbers in it. I think the one that will lodge in my mind for a while is their

estimate that one in 12 women and girls will be a victim of one of these crimes in a year.

So that's 2 million people every year.

Now the person who is recruited into government to help tackle this problem because it's something

they've campaigned on for decades now is the

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