Chief Constable goes walkabout to help stamp out violence against women and girls
The outgoing chief constable of West Mercia Police took a walk with members of the community in Telford on Friday as part of a new initiative aimed at preventing violence against women and girls (VAWG).
Pippa Mills, who is soon to leave West Mercia Police to join London's Met, was on the "walk and talk" along the Silken Way to see how the scheme launched earlier this month was working.
The initiative was launched by the force to allow women and girls to raise concerns about issues that affect them.
The chief constable, said she launched the scheme after VAWG become a national policing issue following the "horrific" murder of Sarah Everard at the hands of former Met officer Wayne Couzens.
"The walk and talk is a relatively new initiative and is an idea we borrowed from the Met Police," said Ms Mills. "It is a way that women and girls can contact us and go out with an officer for a walk where they can talk through the issues that they are concerned about."
She said that the walk and talk initiative is conducted by officers on the Safer Neighbourhood Teams (SNT).
