Domestic abuse website visits up ten-fold

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Coronavirus: Domestic abuse website visits up by ten-fold, charity says

Refuge said that over the past three consecutive weeks it recorded a 66% increase in calls to its helpline and recorded a 957% increase in web traffic over the past two weeks.

Data from 41 UK police forces, released to the BBC under freedom of information laws, shows 19 recorded more calls about domestic abuse in March 2020 compared with the same month last year, while 22 recorded a fall.Suffolk Police received 1,114 calls in March 2020, 58% up on the 703 in the same month last year.

"The modification we made in January now sees those less obvious reports also being tagged as domestic incidents."Police forces with the largest percentage rise in calls in March 2020 compared to March 2019Source: BBC Freedom of Information request Ms Walker said:"The police record domestic abuse wrongly - I know they do from reading their logs… name calling and the like are not logged as domestic abuse."Police forces with the largest percentage fall in calls in March 2020 compared to March 2019Source: BBC Freedom of Information request

 

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Probably because all the out of work husbands have discovered the other guy. That's right, I said it. Come get me!

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