Commissioner welcomes government announcement on V100 style tactics
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has welcomed the Government’s announcement that all police forces will be encouraged to replicate the tactics used effectively by the Metropolitan Police Service in its V100 approach to tackling violence against women and girls.
Sir Mark said: “Three years ago, I pledged to make London a safer city for women and girls. We committed to driving improvements, embracing innovation, and applying the same relentless determination we use to combat terrorism to tackle violence against women and girls.
“We built an entirely new system focused on pursuing and prosecuting men who commit violence and I am pleased the government is now asking all forces to have the same principle.
“The results of the V100 programme show that we have delivered on that promise by bringing a counter terrorism edge to targeting predators. In deploying new tactics to proactively target the most violent and repeat offenders, we have doubled the arrest likelihood for our most dangerous offenders.”
He added: “Our work revealed that men who abuse women often commit other serious crimes – drug dealing, extortion, robbery. So we used every legal avenue to bring them down, a strategy known as ‘Achilles heel’ tactics. This approach puts offenders behind bars quickly and prevents future harm. Often, securing custody is the moment past victims feel safe enough to come forward and share their evidence.
“The success of V100 is measured not only in statistics, but in lives protected and dangerous offenders removed from our streets.”