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#victim-support

The unit aims to provide a "culturally responsive approach" to community safety, according Mark Dapat, Peel Regional Police Deputy Chief of community safety and well-being, who oversees the centralized unit of 10 dedicated officers. Dapat said the unit will address hate-motivated crimes involving religious institutions and cultural centres, as well as those stemming from social and geopolitical tensions. 'We've been listening to our community," Dapat told CBC Toronto. "They feel sometimes during the judicial process they're lost in the system.'

"This new unit will handle the entire domestic violence process," Adams said. "That means more resources to our victims and more cops to bring abusers to justice."

The Domestic Violence Unit (DVU) will be the largest of its kind in the nation, Adams and Tisch say, with 450 cops tasked with investigating perpetrators of abuse as well as aiding survivors and ensuring they receive resources while protecting their interests. It is one of the largest organizational changes within the department in the last three decades, as Tisch pointed out.

Since 2021, the Islamic Council of Victoria received 96 reports of Islamophobia incidents, with 26 reported in just six months from January to July this year.

Hollingsbee, 21, was sentenced to five years and two months for sex offences against teenage girls, admitting to 42 charges involving 14 victims.

Tanaiste Simon Harris shared his thoughts with victims of abuse, highlighting their bravery and courage in coming forward to share their stories.

"My introduction to revenge porn came when my daughter Kayla's email was hacked. She had taken over 100 pictures in her room, one of them topless."

John Iwuh, 54, was sentenced to 16 years for raping a woman and secretly filming the attack, showcasing a serious abuse of trust as a nurse.

PC Tony Watts, a Metropolitan Police officer from the North Area Command Unit, has been convicted of rape following an investigation into an off-duty incident.

We feel gaslit, marginalised and abused by successive governments that purport to care [but] evidently do not, she told Wednesday's hearing. We're suffering from sustained trauma.

When Sarah Grace made the difficult phone call to organise her first counselling appointment after a violent sexual assault, she didn't know her therapist's notes could be used against her in court.