{"id":390570,"date":"2018-12-26T08:34:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T07:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-450-sex-abuse-claims-against-uk-police-in-6-months\/"},"modified":"2018-12-26T08:34:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T07:34:31","slug":"presstv-450-sex-abuse-claims-against-uk-police-in-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-450-sex-abuse-claims-against-uk-police-in-6-months\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-&#8216;450 sex abuse claims against UK police in 6 months&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Hundreds of British people have claimed they were sexually harassed by male police officers over the past six years, with only a fraction of cases leading to dismissal or resigning of the accused.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The revelation was made in a report published by <em>The Guardian<\/em> on Tuesday, saying more than half of British police forces received almost 450 complaints from staff and members of the public about sexual harassment, including accusations against senior detectives and inspectors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Julian Williams, chief constable and the National Police Chiefs\u2019 Council lead for professional ethics, said sexual harassment must be rooted out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cThis behavior falls short of the high standards set in the code of ethics, which each member of the policing profession is expected to uphold. Where predatory behavior exists, it requires the strongest response from policing, including the removal of individuals from the service,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The report said 24 police staff,&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/26\/583972\/UK-male-police-officers-sexual-harassment-complaints\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of British people have claimed they were sexually harassed by male police officers over the past six years, with only a fraction of cases leading to dismissal or resigning of the accused. The revelation was made in a report published by The Guardian on Tuesday, saying more than half of British police forces received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}