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The British government on Tuesday announced a package of new measures, including better lighting and CCTV in community, to give "further reassurance" to women and girls after the death of 33-year-old Sarah Everard.   Following a meeting of the government's Crime and Justice Taskforce on Monday evening, Downing Street said it would take "immediate steps" to help women in England and Wales feel safer.   In a statement, the British government said it would be doubling the size of the Safer Streets fund, which provides local measures such as better lighting and CCTV, to 45 million pounds (about...

| Last updated  1:24 PM, March 16 2021 GMT Undercover police are set to be deployed in bars across the UK as part of measures to help keep women safe. The move was announced following a meeting of the government's Crime and Justice Taskforce, which was chaired by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. It will see uniformed and plain clothes officers tasked with finding predatory and suspicious offenders in the night time economy. The initiative has been dubbed 'Project Vigilant', and will see cops deployed in areas around bars and clubs alongside increased police patrols at closing time. Advert 10 T...

Undercover officers at nightclubs among plans to protect women Top Story March 17, 2021 LONDON: Plain clothes police officers could patrol bars and nightclubs around the country as part of plans to protect women from “predatory” offenders. Following a meeting of the Government’s Crime and Justice Taskforce chaired by the Prime Minister, Downing Street said it was taking a series of “immediate steps” to improve security. Among them is to roll-out across the country pilots of a programme where uniformed and plain clothes officers seek to actively identify predatory and suspicious of...

Tougher sentences, extra beat officers and changing society: Your ideas on how to keep women safer We asked you what should be done to make women safer everyday Readers shared their thoughts on the action that could be taken to make women feel safer. (Image: Ekaterina Somenko / EyeEm | Getty) Never miss another Leicestershire story by signing up to our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newslet...

For Temple Douglass, a University of Georgia student majoring in art with an emphasis in drawing and painting, art has always been her favorite hobby. However, she found her experience with the majority-white student population and faculty in the Lamar Dodd School of Art to be annoying and uncomfortable. As part of a push for diversity, equity and inclusion of underrepresented students, the art school’s Solidarity and Justice Task Force and Committee initiated the formation of the Black Artists Alliance. The organization, run for and by students, aims to provide resources and a source of...