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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Police to get compulsory training on violence against women under Labour plans

Sarah Everard.
Sarah Everard, who was murdered by a Met officer, prompting a report by Elish Angiolini. Photograph: PA

A Labour government would order every police officer in England and Wales to undergo compulsory training on combating violence against women and girls, the Guardian has learned.

The plans are being drawn up by the party and come in the wake of the shockwaves from Elish Angiolini’s report on Thursday into the Wayne Couzens scandal after his murder of Sarah Everard while serving in the Metropolitan police.

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