Who's Policing GMP Abuse of Women?

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is failing the women of Greater Manchester. Crime reporting by women in Greater Manchester is going under-investigated or non-investigated. Women who raise complaint against GMP about these failings, or challenge them legally, risk harassment and abuse, including harassing visits with no policing purpose, recording of false data, threats of arrest, actual arrest and wrongful detention.

This problem remains unchallenged by senior leadership at GMP and the associated Police & Crimes Commissioner (PCC) office at GMCA. The extent of this problem is currently unknown, lacks research data and requires tackling as a matter of public priority.

Project PEEL is hosting this event to bring together those impacted by GMP harassment and abuse, and to find ways to challenge this problem and provide resource and redress for women who fall victim of GMP. We will be asking what the incoming Mayor/PCC needs to be doing to help the women of Greater Manchester, and what commitment they can make to resolving these challenges.

This event follows on from a previous workshop hosted by Project PEEL in November 2023 at the Women’s Equality Party conference in Sheffield.

The Greater Manchester Mayoral Role: Since the establishment of the ‘Metro Mayor’ office in 2017 to incorporate the PCC remit, GMP have fallen in standards from average to ‘special measures’, with special measures removed in November 2022 under circumstances that many consider dubious. Little seems to have changed or improved, and the targeted harassment and abuse of women by GMP seems, at times, to have escalated considerably.

It is important that the voices of women be heard, and that their stories and experiences are acknowledged during the 2024 mayoral campaign; when voters go to poll and; when the new mayor is appointed to oversee the PCC remit for GMP.

Event Format: There will be a number of women presenting their experiences of GMP failings and the resultant harassment they have experienced, and an open discussion on what needs to be done, and what can be done.

The women of Greater Manchester need action, not words, and our current city leaders and police oversight bodies are failing to deliver. It should not fall upon the women of Greater Manchester to hold a publicly-funded police force to account, but it seems no one else is willing to do so.

About Project PEEL: Project PEEL is a volunteer-led project concerned with the experiences women have in engaging with Greater Manchester Police. We faciliate and encourage public engagement with the key problems and potential solutions.

Places are currently limited to 50, with a waiting list in place.

Agenda to follow.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Friends' Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, United Kingdom