WOMEN SAFETY
Due to the success of the Lionesses winning the Euros in 2022, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) decided to incorporate the empowerment of women by embedding a new plan to keep women and girls safe during the summer months in the city and towns, the operation known as Operation Lioness
INTO ACTION ROARING
In June 2022, Superintendent James Faulkner and the force put together a three-pillar plan to look at safe spaces within the nighttime economies, public and green spaces to ensure women and girls could move safely around. “Greater Manchester is a large conurbation mix of urban and rural, predominantly urban, with 10 local authority areas within the area,” Supt. Faulkner explained. “We wanted an operation that covered the three pillars and provided reassurance and preventative work for our busy town centres across the summer months.
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“We chose summer because the days are
longer, and more people come out when the weather is nice. We wanted a response to help make our city and towns, as well as green spaces and public spaces, safer for
with the ambitions of the operation. It was commensurate with the overarching strategy. It was about empowering women. “Women and girls should not be afraid
identifying vulnerable women and girls, and doing something about that before incidents may occur. It might be about getting them into a taxi or, alternatively, making sure they have friends with them.”
women and girls. “The idea behind Op Lioness was born out of the success of the Euro Championship-winning team, so we copied that name before it was commensurate
“It is all about spotting predatory behaviours,
to use our nighttime economies, so we decided to dovetail this with the very significant piece of research we did.”
In early
2022, GMP commissioned
research to speak to thousands of people in Greater Manchester to ascertain their levels of feeling safe. Supt. Faulkner continued: “The end product of that research was a very
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