We are grateful to Baroness Cash for her proposed amendment for the police to record sex accurately.
@Fox_Claire outlined the case superbly👇, including WRN's own communications with the NPCC
@PoliceChiefs, who, like the Government, have their feet set firmly in treacle.
The need for correct sex data has been clearly demonstrated by
@ProfAliceS in her excellent report.
Meanwhile, as demonstrated by WRN's own FOIs to police forces, including that of
@ASPolice (referenced below by
@CforWomenUK), sex is either not being recorded at all, or is being conflated with 'gender', and is entirely based on self ID. Some of the perverse consequences of this wholesale corruption of data are large numbers of 'female rapists' recorded.
As a result, no one can rely on the integrity or credibility of police data with regard to sex. This is unacceptable.
Yesterday Baroness Cash's amendment to ensure that police always record sex data accurately was debated in the House of Lords 1/