Proposals drawn up by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) would allow intimate body searches of women ... of the UK need to bear in mind that their role as police officers is to protect ...

International Women's Day celebrates the achievements of women across all aspects of life - social, economic, cultural and ...

Bodycam footage captured the moment a hero police officer rushed into a burning house to save a woman after an arson attack. Police were called to the blaze in Lingmell Close, West Bridgford ...

A Durham police officer grabbed ... a watermelon”. Another officer says he stared her chest and called her “itty bitty” – a reference to the size of a woman’s breasts – before touching ...

Rape Crisis offers support for those affected by rape and sexual abuse. You can call them on 0808 802 9999 in England and Wales, 0808 801 0302 in Scotland, and 0800 0246 991 in Northern Ireland, or ...

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A Sussex police officer pinned a woman to a wall in an alleyway and sexually assaulted her, a court has heard. Former inspector Mike Sinden, 36, of Hove, East Sussex, and the woman, who cannot be ...

ITV have joined forces with five women to tell the extraordinary story of their intimate relationships with police officers who they had no idea were deployed in covert operations. In total more ...

A woman who allegedly spat at police and kicked one officer eight times in the head and face has been refused bail. Josie McCaughey, 33, of Beraghvale in Londonderry, is charged with a number of ...

Despite huge strides in female representation, many women feel they are having to re-fight old battles for equality ...

A woman who spat at and hit two police officers told a court she was just shouting after claiming they “manhandled” her and she didn’t mean to “hurt anyone”. Sarah Rossiter was arrested ...

The officer, who has since left the force and who has not been named, now faces a misconduct hearing over his behaviour. He is said to have carried out sexual assaults on a woman also employed by ...