Plain-Clothed Police Officers to Video-Call Supervisors When Stopping Lone Women

Plain-Clothed Police Officers to Video-Call Supervisors When Stopping Lone Women
A Metropolitan Police officer in an undated file photo. Nick Ansell/PA
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Lone plain-clothed officers will video-call a uniformed supervisor while engaging with lone women to show proof of their identities, the Metropolitan Police said on Wednesday.

The measure is designed to ensure women’s safety after Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, was raped and murdered by a police officer, who fake-arrested her while she was walking alone.