Victims do not report crimes for fear of data being shared with Home Office, groundbreaking report says

Police officers with doubts over the immigration status of domestic abuse victims should not share their data with the Home Office, a groundbreaking investigation has concluded.

Three police oversight bodies have published a report into the first ever “super-complaint”, submitted by Liberty and Southall Black Sisters, about the police practice of sharing victims’ immigration information with the Home Office.

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