18 January 2014

'Alternative' policing in some minority communities

Police are never called by certain minority communities because they administer their own justice even in cases as serious as murder and sexual assaults on children, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Tom Winsor has said.

He said offences including “honour” killings and violence, domestic abuse, sexual assaults on children and female genital mutilation were among those not reported to police because communities wanted to deal with them themselves.

Mr Winsor said there were some cities in the Midlands where police were never called because communities dealt with issues themselves, and he stressed these "alternative" systems were run not by criminals but by “law-abiding people”. [The Telegraph] Read more