Project Azure

The Metropolitan Police

response to Female

Genital Mutilation

Inspector Allen Davis

Partnership Team

Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child

Abuse Command

NPCC Strategy ‘Honour based abuse, forced marriage and FGM

policing strategy’ 2015 - 2018

Prevention: Making harmful practices dishonourable in our communities

using ‘community driven solutions’ (C.D.S.) to tackle generational cycle of

offending.

Protection: Keep people safe by removing, minimising or controlling risks

and preventing crime.

Prosecution: Bring more offenders to justice through conviction.

Partnership: Collaborating to create safer future for younger generations.

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What can you do?

Home Office FGM eLearning Culturally sensitive language

Prevalence by community Professional curiosity

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•World Heath Organization has described FGM as a practice that “reflects a deep-rooted inequality between the sexes, and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women.”

•UK communities at risk of FGM include Somalis, Sudanese, Egyptians, Sierra Leoneans, Nigerians, Eritreans, Ethiopians, Gambians

•Non African communities at risk of FGM include Yemeni, Kurdish, Indonesian and Pakistani women.

•Estimated that 170,000 women and girls are living with FGM in the UK today and that 65,000 girls aged 13 and under are at risk of FGM.