Testimony from victims highlights the devastating impact tech abuse can have on them: “People don’t realise how badly verbal harassment and cyberbullying affects you. I wish they had hit me in the face and gotten it over with, because what they said to me, sticks to me to this day. It affected me into the person that I am today.”
The first National Police Chiefs’ Council violence against women and girls (VAWG) strategic threat and risk assessment (STRA) published in May, highlights for the first time the policing perspective of the extent and impact of online and tech-enabled VAWG as a national threat, alongside rape/sexual offences, domestic abuse and child abuse.