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Call for suspension of all police and staff accused of violence against women

Source: PA Archive

A petition with more than 50,000 signatures calling for police officers and staff accused of violence against women and girls to be suspended while claims are investigated has been delivered to Downing Street by a women’s charity.

took the document to on Thursday, a year to the day found that Britain’s largest police force is institutionally racist, homophobic and misogynistic.

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