00:00We're introducing Raneen's law because victims of domestic abuse need to know that the police
00:15will be there for them in an emergency. That didn't happen for Raneen when she lost her
00:20life and that's why we're bringing domestic abuse experts into 999 control rooms like
00:26this to make sure that the emergency response is right. What we've seen is if there is proper
00:31domestic abuse expertise it means that you can get the right response to the calls that
00:38come in and proper understanding of the seriousness of domestic abuse as a crime and how lives
00:44are at risk in the most serious cases as we saw in the awful case where Raneen Mooda and
00:49her mother Kaola lost their lives because the police didn't respond to a 999 call. We
00:54cannot let that happen and that's why we want to make sure that we've got that expertise
00:59that we need in 999 control rooms across the country. This Labour government is determined
01:05to have a mission to halve violence against women and girls over the next 10 years. That
01:10has to involve much stronger response to awful cases of domestic abuse but it means working
01:18much harder on prevention, it means a stronger police response, it means effective criminal
01:23justice response and it means communities and workforces across the country responding
01:28to what really should be treated as a serious crime. This is going to require hard work
01:34and hard graft but we're making it a mission because this has been going on for too long.
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