Women’s rights activists were incensed that a flier published by the Kent Police in the vicinity of their station in Great Britain listed “rape” as a non-emergency incident. A contentious discussion concerning the gravity of sexual assault and the significance of appropriate reporting protocols was spurred by the contentious material.
英国でメイドストーン警察署の近くに発見された通知は、記事の主題でした 水曜日にBBCが発行. フライヤーは、ケント警察にオンラインで提出することができる「非緊急問い合わせ」の種類についての近傍に情報を提供しました。 悲しいことに、「治療と性的暴行」は、フライヤーのカテゴリの1でした。
また、非緊急チャネルは、お客様から「苦情・苦情」を受信するために使用されるものでした。
文書のイメージは、インターネット上でウイルスに行きました, 犯罪がより少ない深刻なカテゴリに低下したと信じることができなかった女性や活動家を怒らせます.
ソーシャルメディアでは、「ケント警察のウェブサイトを通じて、次の非緊急連絡先がオンラインで報告することができます。」という言葉で署名の画像。
The flyer had crimes listed under a prominent notice, with a wide range of categories such as “road traffic incidents,” “domestic abuse,” “fraud,” “hate crime,” “missing persons,” “rape and sexual assault,” “anti-social behavior,” “compliments and complaints,” and “contacting Kent Police (general enquiries).”
ジャン・ハチェット、フェミニスト、Twitterユーザー、 水曜日に画像を投稿 不快感を表現する。
Hatchet took to Twitter to vent her rage at its content, “My internal screaming is drowning out my typing because of this. @kent_police have recently declared that Rape and Domestic Abuse are considered ‘non-emergency’ crimes, and have advised women not to report them in order to ease the workload of call handlers! It is no surprise that women are falling prey to the hands of men. This is a disgrace!”
BBC報告ケント警察の「B4 Uコールキャンペーンをクリック」の一部は、コールハンドラーの作業負荷を減らす方法として、オンラインレポートオプションを使用する人々を奨励する文書でした。
CEO of the Women’s Equality Party Catherine Smith vehemently objected to the aforementioned flyer. Smith maintained that in order to effectively communicate with those who have been victims of such crimes, a real person must be involved. She thinks that the police are not prioritizing these kinds of crimes because there is a lack of human interaction, and this tells women that their experiences are not important.
Following his viewing of the BBC report on Wednesday, Matthew Scott, the Commissioner of Kent Police and Crime, expressed regret on Twitter. He declared that the poster was totally inappropriate and inaccurate. He also agreed that it was appropriately taken down and never should have been on display. He underlined that incidents of rape and domestic abuse have never been classified as non-emergencies and that he will always give them the serious attention they require. You can find the original article here.
ポスターは取り下げられ、最も効率的な方法で犯罪を法執行に報告する方法に関する指示を提供する新しいものに置き換えられました。
より大きい正義失敗のフラッシュポイント
The Kent flyer drew such fury because it touched a raw nerve: across England and Wales, rape and serious sexual offences are already widely seen as crimes the system fails to take seriously. The numbers bear that out. In the year ending March 2025, police recorded 71,667 rape offences — yet less than 3% of cases that year resulted in a charge, let alone a conviction. Rape Crisis England & Wales notes that just 2.7% of rapes reported to police lead to a charge in the same year. A 2020 report by leading women’s organisations went so far as to argue that rape had been effectively “decriminalised,” with prosecutions and convictions at their lowest since records began.
生存者は試用期間を過ぎ去った
Even when a case is charged, survivors face crushing delays. Rape Crisis figures show the Crown Court backlog has hit successive record highs: by the end of December 2025 there were 80,203 cases outstanding overall, with sexual offence cases reaching roughly 14,749 — a 75% jump in three years. Adult rape survivors now wait an average of well over a year — frequently far longer — between an offender being charged and the case concluding, and one in three rape trials is postponed at least once. The charity warns that a rape survivor in London being given a trial date today could be told it will be listed in 2029 or 2030. Such delays drive many survivors to withdraw entirely; in the year to June 2024, 59% of adult-rape victims dropped out before a charge was even brought.
努力と持続的な不足を改革
Authorities have responded with Operation Soteria, a joint police-and-CPS programme built on academic research that shifts investigations toward the suspect’s behaviour rather than scrutinising the victim. Rolled out across all 14 CPS areas, it has helped push charges and prosecutions upward — the CPS charged 2,572 adult-rape suspects in 2023/24, up more than 34% on the prior year. But campaigners stress that progress at the investigation stage means little while an under-funded, barrister-short court system cannot actually hear the cases, leaving survivors trapped in what Rape Crisis calls “living in limbo.” The Kent poster, in that light, was less an isolated blunder than a symbol of how routinely the system signals to women that their most serious experiences are treated as an afterthought.
英国で性的暴力を経験した場合は、ラップ・クリスシス・イングランド&ウェールズと24 / 7 Rapeと性的虐待サポートラインからサポートをご利用いただけます。
時計: なぜそう少数の英国は確信の箱の端を扱います
病気の警察署および政府