Officers from the Leeds Licensing Team recently carried out a test purchase operation in Headingley, Hyde Park and Leeds City Centre as part of their Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) week of action.

As part of the Constabulary’s Operation Banishing initiative to tackle violence against women and girls and protect vulnerable people, plain-clothed officers from the Warrington Town Centre Beat Team, aided by a Council Licensing Officer visited several venues to test how hospitality staff members would react to being asked for Angela on Saturday 22nd February.

Around Christmas time, a plain-clothed police officer visited several venues in Birmingham including Albert Schloss, Slug and Lettuce in Brindley Place, The Dragon Inn (JDW) and Mama Roux in Digbeth (which also has a female safety welfare team patrolling the venue).