Millions living in areas where police not trained in handling domestic violence

More than 10 million people are living in areas where no officers have received specialist training in domestic violence cases. Photograph: Islandstock/Alamy

Millions of people in England and Wales are living in areas where police have received no specialist training in responding to domestic violence.

Data released under freedom of information laws reveals that nine police forces had not given any officers specialist domestic abuse training by the end of 2021, and that those which had, in most cases, had only trained small numbers.