Submitted by Clare Langman on Friday 24th October 2025
Published on Tuesday 13th January 2026
Current status: Open
Open until: Monday 13th July 2026
Current Signatures: 33
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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appears ~ Armed Forces ~ arms ~ Damaged ~ England ~ England and Wales ~ Failed ~ Forced ~ Government MUST ~ Impersonating ~ Improved ~ Law ~ Officers ~ Police ~ police forces ~ Ratings ~ Repeat ~ Request ~ Reviewed ~ Severe ~ The Law ~ The Police ~ training ~ Wales
Review Coercive Control Law and Police Training
It appears that the current Coercive Control Law is not working and failing. Last year there were almost 50,000 offences of coercive control recorded by the police in England and Wales but only a very small number of these resulted in convictions. This conviction rate must be improved.
The Government must review the application of the law and widen it to encompass more behaviours: severe lying, impersonating armed forces personnel, repeat infidelity, damage to vehicles. Adequate training must be provided to police forces and there must be a presumption in that training for women to be dealt with by female officers upon request.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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