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Mar 18

GWENT POLICE ARE BREAKING THE LAW

A police force is openly admitting, 11 months after the Supreme Court judgment that they are continuing to allow men into women’s changing rooms and toilets.

They are STILL telling their staff that this is an 'entitlement'.
They are wrong.

We’d like to know what the Chief Constable and PCC of @gwentpolice will do about this flagrant breach of the Workplace Regulations 1992.

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The response by @gwentpolice to a WRN FOI about their policies around workplace facilities is staggering.
They’ve produced a policy (last reviewed June 2025) which is:
❌Legally incorrect
❌ Unforgivably ignorant (at best), or
❌ Contemptuous (at worst) of the rights of their female staff and officers.

Given that they didn’t even see any need to consult those females, then we aren’t surprised. The very same females who have had their rights breached for years.
No apologies, no consultation.
The Chief Constable did find time to consult with the LGBTQ+ group though …..
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.@gwentpolice sent out a communication to staff following the Supreme Court judgment.
A communication which told them to continue just as they were. Which in this case, means to continue breaking the law.
A communication that oddly, also referred their staff to Mermaids.
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Feb 20

UPDATE 📣: Northumbria Police admit they didn’t comply with their own processes when they commissioned an ideologically loaded survey to 18-25 yr olds on how to ‘engage’ with the Supreme Court judgment.

Why do @northumbriapol override their own protocols when it comes to complying with the rights of women and girls?

More info and link ⬇️
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The breach on internal protocol was only confirmed via an FOI request to the force 👇.

@northumbriapol failed to provide a copy of the submission to @sunderlanduni despite this being requested, and did not provide any explanation why it had been withheld.

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They did however, copy and paste details of the submission, which contains some startling assumptions.

There is a worrying vacuum of understanding from @northumbriapol about the impact of legal misinterpretation and misrepresentation on the rights of women and girls.
All the concern is in one direction.
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Feb 5

🧵 Leisure centre sex crimes are not one-off crimes by ‘Peeping Toms’ chancing their luck in the mixed-sex changing rooms.

Time and again when a male is caught photographing women and children in the cubicle next to him it’s to add to his collection of illicit photographs and films. Leisure centre predators tend to be multiple offenders.

There was national outrage in April 2024 when two men were sentenced to a total of 22 months after being caught with over 6,000 images of women and children taken in leisure centres all over London and the south-east.

This was not an isolated case. As the examples in this thread demonstrate, predatory men are committing tens, hundreds, even thousands, of crimes in mixed-sex changing rooms all over the country. 1/5

In Derbyshire, a police community support officer was caught accessing images of child sexual abuse. When his hard drive was checked the police also found footage of seven children filmed in the family changing village at Queen’s Park Leisure Centre, Chesterfield. Only five of the children have been identified.

The offender pleaded guilty to several counts of voyeurism and to possessing 365 indecent images of the most serious category A. In addition, he admitted to possessing 262 category B and 686 category C images and 179 prohibited images of children. 2/5

In Bath, a 16-year-old girl realised she was being filmed when she noticed a camera under the changing cubicle of the swimming pool at Bath University. A 39-year-old man was apprehended and when police checked his phone they found he had recorded 32 other girls aged 16-18 (six in the swimming pool cubicles). The police have not been able to identify these girls.
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Feb 1

Leisure centres across the country are becoming crime scenes as sexual predators take advantage of easy access to women and girls getting undressed in the changing room cubicle next to them.

Here we bring you four examples where men have filmed women and girls by sliding a phone under or over a cubicle partition - every one of which could have been prevented if the leisure centre provided single-sex changing rooms for swimmers. 🧵 1/5

In Wales, a man loitering in the unisex changing area at the LC2 in Swansea spotted his prey - a teenage girl - going into a cubicle and entered the one next to it to film her. She spotted his phone, kicked it away and the pervert ran away.

We know what happened because it was caught on CCTV and shown in court. The criminal received a six month jail sentence suspended for two years. 2/5

In Northern Ireland, a voyeur photographed a child at the South Lake Leisure Centre in Craigavon.

Upper Bann DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley said he was aware of the incident and would be seeking an urgent meeting with officials at Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council.

‘It has been brought to my attention by local parents that there are concerns with the safeguarding of children in the unisex changing facilities in South Lake Leisure Centre,’ he said.

‘In this day and age where photographic and video technology is so easily accessible, we really cannot underestimate the potential dangers posed to children when changing in these settings.’

We agree. 3/5

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Jan 22

🚨 Why have Northumbria Police @northumbriapol commissioned a survey 👇 targeted at 18-25 yr olds using highly contested ideological language, to inform them how to ‘engage’ with the @ForWomenScot Supreme Court ruling?

Just comply with the law!

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sunduni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7Q…

This survey is being carried out by the University of Sunderland @sunderlanduni and was commissioned by Northumbria Police.
It will have been authorised at the highest level.

The Chief Constable is Vanessa Jardine, National Police Chiefs Council lead @policechiefs for ‘LGBTQ+’ issues.

The very same chief who was responsible for the unlawful strip search policy based on self ID. #StateSanctionedSexualAssault

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Why are a police force like @northumbriapol spending public money working out how to engage with a judgment by the highest legal authority in the land?

Did they do this when they permitted men into women’s facilities, or when their Chief pushed for male officers to strip search women - and criminalise us if we objected? Of course not.

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Jan 3

One-third of local council swimming pools ONLY offer mixed-sex changing facilities for swimmers. These ‘changing villages’ are a magnet for sexual predators.

WRN has been collating court reports where males have been convicted of crimes committed in mixed-sex changing rooms. Here are a few examples…

Two men were jailed after being convicted of secretly filming around 6,000 women and children, in swimming pool changing rooms in leisure centres throughout London and the south-east … 1/8

Young girls at leisure centres in Sutton-in-Ashfield and Mansfield were secretly filmed by a Police Community Support Officer from Derbyshire. This man also filmed women and children at Centre Parcs near Nottingham… 2/8

In Bangor, Northern Ireland, a woman’s 11-year-old son saw a hand and a phone appear over the partition of the changing cubicle at the Aurora Leisure Centre. The man later appeared in court... 3/8

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