00:00On top of the £380 million we've already invested tackling this global epidemic I'm announcing
00:05a further £37 million and part of that will be set aside almost £60 million for the first
00:11ever fund to improve the public realm to work with women across our great city so they can
00:17be advising councils in particular how we can make public spaces safer and so they feel safer
00:24as well that could be better lighting that could be better CCTV that could be removing blind spots
00:30I want our city to be a place where women feel safe and are safe. So initiatives such as Project
00:36Vigilance have been formed with our communities where we police open spaces in a really innovative
00:42way using behavioural detection training and so on and so forth to identify offenders who might
00:47potentially target people in public spaces and therefore bring them to justice and better
00:51safeguard our public so there's a raft of innovative initiatives that sit behind this
00:56strategy in which the Met and the Mayor's Office work really closely on. I think moving more into
01:00the prevention space is a shared ambition of ourselves and the Mayor's Office because we recognise
01:04that this is a problem that we in policing will continue to enforce against with all the vigour
01:08that the public would expect of us but preventing crime is always better than solving it if we can.
01:13So many of the initiatives that this money will resource include those that will try to stop
01:18crimes against women and girls from happening in the first place and wherever we can do that we
01:22must of course not least because it prevents the victimisation but also because it helps us all to
01:25then target our resources against those most dangerous offenders in our society. Local authorities
01:30across the capital will be able to apply for a share of £15.6 million in what Lord Sadiq Khan
01:39described as a first ever new fund that will see the city work with women and girls to help
01:45transform public spaces across the capital. The total funding also includes a previously announced
01:52£1 million package of measures to support boys and young men across the city as Lord Khan warned
01:59that online misogyny risks a lost generation of young men and branded so-called manosphere influencers,
02:07snake oil salesmen. Meanwhile, £6 million will go towards tackling a rise in technology-enabled abuse,
02:14involving mobile phones, social media and other devices such as doorbell cameras being used to
02:20target women and girls and exasperate controlling behaviour within domestic abuse situations.
02:27Probably the most positive one of all is our initiative to tackle stalking in our city,
02:33the multi-agency stalking threat assessment centre which the police and the mayor's office and other
02:39partners the NHS and others all contribute to and probation service work together to prevent stalking
02:45and to tackle those recidivist stalkers who need to be brought to justice. The work that we've done
02:51together in terms of the Stalking Threat Assessment Centre really embodies what multi-agency working
02:55with academic support can do in order to make women and girls safer in our city.
