A Welsh police force has been detailing hourly reports it received of domestic abuse, stalking and harassment in a single day. Dyfed Powys Police posted the entries on its social media pages over a 24-hour period from 8am on Thursday, December 1 to Friday, December 2.
The force said that the aim of the posts is to demonstrate options available to victims who might be suffering in silence and to show the sheer volume of calls received in one day. According to data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in November, one in five adults experience domestic abuse in Wales and England after the age of 16. Between March 2021 and March 2022 stalking was the most commonly reported domestic abuse offence in Britain.
In the Dyfed Powys force area between March 2021 and March 2022 13% of prosecutions involved a domestic abuse report. 87% of those reports resulted in a conviction according to the ONS - the highest figure of any force in Britain.
