A Leeds police officer has been praised for taking the time to sit and listen to a teenage girl struggling with family life after telling her parents about her sexuality.
West Yorkshire Police Inspector Katie Madden, who works as a custody inspector, was conducting a review of the detention of a 14-year-old girl who then suddenly noticed the officer's LGBTQ lanyard. Inspector Madden detailed what happened next in a thread on her Twitter page.
She wrote: "Went to conduct a review of detention of a 14yr old in custody last night, as soon as I opened the door, she sat bolt upright, pointed towards my #LGBTQ lanyard & asked if she could speak to me. I sat in the cell with her whilst she told me how her parents struggle to accept...that she's lesbian, they stop her seeing her girlfriend, arguments happen, she gets frustrated and struggles to deal with her emotions then either ends up going missing or arrested.
