against female victims in the uk. the report was commissioned by the home secretary priti patel in the wake of the murder of sarah everard. joining me now is zoe billingham, her majesty s inspector of constabulary who works for the watchdog that wrote the report. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. obviously you are one of the authors of the report, as it was put together and the inconsistencies were uncovered, what were your thoughts? i were uncovered, what were your thou~hts? . , were uncovered, what were your thou~hts? ., , ., , were uncovered, what were your thoughts? were uncovered, what were your thouuhts? ., , , ,, thoughts? i was really shocked by the scale of thoughts? i was really shocked by the scale of the thoughts? i was really shocked by the scale of the harm thoughts? i was really shocked by the scale of the harm that s - thoughts? i was really shocked by the scale of the harm that s beingj the scale of the harm that s being inflicted on women and girls across
and inconsistencies in the police response to what it called the epidemic of violence against female victims in the uk. the report was commissioned by the home secretary priti patel in the wake of the murder of sarah everard. earlier we heard from zoe billingham, her majesty s inspector of constabulary who works for the watchdog that wrote the report. she said real commitment and resources are needed from those in government and policing to change the approach to these kinds of offences. i was really shocked by the scale of the harm that s being inflicted on women and girls across the country. i ve worked in this area for a long time and every day new figures were coming forward. we already knew 1.6 million women are victims of domestic abuse and a woman is killed every three days by a man. but we also heard about girls being fearful online, we heard about