Spiking victim says police advised her not to report incident
Spiking victim says police advised her not to report incident. A new programme has found that drug spiking incidents reported to the police have gone up 5-fold in the last 5 years, and in 2022 a spiking incident was reported to the police every hour. Source: Good Morning Britain, ITV
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00:00 I don't think it's a policing priority really either.
00:02 And I know that was sort of your experience
00:03 to have a post-spiking with--
00:06 What happened when you reported it?
00:07 How you wanted to feel justice.
00:09 I didn't report it.
00:10 I spoke to a police officer and she advised me not to.
00:13 Why?
00:13 She said they wouldn't take me seriously.
00:15 They wouldn't do anything.
00:17 And because nothing actually happened to me,
00:19 it would kind of be like, well, you're OK.
00:21 So don't worry about it.
00:22 Get over it.
00:23 And go home.
00:23 Yeah, that's it.
00:24 So I'm not going to--
00:25 when you experience a trauma like that,
00:27 you kind of just want it to go away.
00:29 You want to feel safe as fast as possible.
00:31 So me going into an environment where people are not
00:33 going to take me seriously and ask me questions
00:35 that are going to upset me, I didn't feel safe to do that.
00:38 Which I suppose then means that people
00:40 are getting away with it.
00:41 Of course.