The first wave of police forces will start embedding domestic abuse specialists in their 999 control rooms early next year to stop emergency services missing opportunities to save women’s lives. The move is part of “Raneem’s Law”, named after Raneem Oudeh, to transform the way the police handle cases of violence against women and girls. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper pledges that the government "has a mission to halve domestic abuse." Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We're introducing Raneen's law because victims of domestic abuse need to know that the police
00:15will be there for them in an emergency. That didn't happen for Raneen when she lost her
00:20life and that's why we're bringing domestic abuse experts into 999 control rooms like
00:26this to make sure that the emergency response is right. What we've seen is if there is proper
00:31domestic abuse expertise it means that you can get the right response to the calls that
00:38come in and proper understanding of the seriousness of domestic abuse as a crime and how lives
00:44are at risk in the most serious cases as we saw in the awful case where Raneen Mooda and
00:49her mother Kaola lost their lives because the police didn't respond to a 999 call. We
00:54cannot let that happen and that's why we want to make sure that we've got that expertise
00:59that we need in 999 control rooms across the country. This Labour government is determined
01:05to have a mission to halve violence against women and girls over the next 10 years. That
01:10has to involve much stronger response to awful cases of domestic abuse but it means working
01:18much harder on prevention, it means a stronger police response, it means effective criminal
01:23justice response and it means communities and workforces across the country responding
01:28to what really should be treated as a serious crime. This is going to require hard work
01:34and hard graft but we're making it a mission because this has been going on for too long.