- Police will use counter-terror-style tactics to bring offenders to justice
- Labour has warned the current response does not look at a pattern of behaviour
- Party has a mission to halve cases of this type of violence within the next decade
The most prolific domestic abusers will be monitored like terrorists under government plans to slash violence against women and girls.
Police will be asked to use counter-terror-style data analysis and tactics, including surveillance operations, to bring offenders to justice.
Under the plans being worked on, officers will have to monitor and target the most dangerous perpetrators of violence against women and girls.
Labour hopes it will stop repeat offenders evading justice as a result of failings in the criminal justice system.
The party has previously warned that repeat offenders of violence against women and girls get away with their crimes as the response is focused on individual incidents and not a pattern of behaviour.
The proposals, first announced at Labour’s conference last autumn, are part of the party’s mission to halve cases of this type of violence within a decade.
The most prolific domestic abusers will be monitored like terrorists under government plans to slash violence against women and girls
Under the plans, police forces would use data on named suspects of rape, stalking and domestic abuse to devise a matrix of the most dangerous perpetrators in the area – and identify 1,000 across the country.
Officers will then rank high-risk suspects, who would then be targeted with the tactics and tools usually reserved for counter-terror and organised crime.
In addition, control rooms responding to 999 calls will be given a dedicated domestic abuse adviser, the Sunday Times reported.
The measures will be introduced by a new cross-departmental ‘mission delivery board’, to be led by Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips, which is set to meet next month.
Compulsory training for police in England and Wales on combating violence against women and girls is also expected to be introduced within a year.
Under the plan, officers would not be able to achieve promotion without some experience of working in either child protection or a domestic violence unit.
A senior Whitehall source told the paper: ‘The Prime Minister is fired up about this issue. He sees it as a massive priority and wants to throw everything at it.’
Sir Keir Starmer is said to be haunted by the story of Jane Clough, a 26-year-old nurse who was stabbed to death by her former partner Jonathan Vass while he was on bail accused of raping her.
Police will use different tactics to track domestic abusers, while control rooms responding to 999 calls will be given a dedicated domestic abuse adviser under the new plans
Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips will embark on a six-month data-gathering exercise to assess the scale of the violence against women problem
Sir Keir Starmer is said to be haunted by the story of Jane Clough, a 26-year-old nurse who was stabbed to death by her former partner Jonathan Vass (left) while on bail accused of raping her
The Labour leader met with her parents when he was head of the Crown Prosecution Service and helped them to change the law.
He told of their plight in his 2021 conference speech, saying he had been ‘humbled’ by them.
Mrs Phillips will embark on a six-month data-gathering exercise to assess the scale of the violence against women problem.
It comes after the National Police Chiefs’ Council described the radicalising of boys by online influencers such as Andrew Tate as ‘quite terrifying’.
Last month it said the targeting of misogynistic content towards young boys was a ‘national emergency’.
