Exclusive: Home Office documents show officers referred more than 2,000 victims of serious crime
Children who have been sexually exploited and women who have been attacked by their partners are among more than 2,000 victims of serious crime who police reported to immigration enforcement, two government documents reveal.
Groups working with women and the vulnerable say the policy deters crime victims from seeking help, and emboldens attackers. In 2020, His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary called for an end to reporting domestic abuse victims to immigration unless there was clear evidence of an immigration offence, saying “significant harm is being caused to the public interest”.under freedom of information laws shows that from 2020 to 2022, at least 423 victims of domestic abuse – believed to be overwhelmingly female – were reported to the immigration enforcement unit of the Home Office.
The third biggest force, West Midlands police, made 222 referrals; West Yorkshire, the fifth biggest, made 143; and Greater Manchester police, the fourth biggest, made 132. A second Home Office document shows that a quarter of domestic abuse victims police referred to immigration were served with enforcement papers, meaning their coming forward to report a crime had led to them being considered for deportation.
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