Submitted by Demi Louise Flanagan on Wednesday 4th February 2026
Published on Friday 27th March 2026
Current status: Open
Open until: Sunday 27th September 2026
Current Signatures: 50
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Tagged with
abuse ~ COMMITTING ~ Crime ~ Domestic ~ Face ~ Families ~ justice system ~ Justices ~ Police ~ Reported ~ Reviewed ~ system ~ The Police ~ Victim
Review guidance on investigating crimes when reported by abusers
Review police guidance on investigating crimes and look at how victims of domestic/ sexual abuse and coercive control can be better protected from further traumatisation when their abusers report them to the police for crimes.
These crimes will be on the perpetrators orders, carried out by the victim under duress. Abusers can threaten victims and their families to coerce their victims into committing crimes. They then report them and the victims are retraumatized and face prosecution rather than being treated as victims. We feel a review is needed to look at how these reports are dealt with by police and the justice system.
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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