Senior officers said they were creating a strategy aimed how to ‘better tackle violence against women and girls’.
It follows the publication by the National Police Chiefs’ Council and College of Policing of a new framework about how police forces nationally can address violence aimed at women and girls.
Police chiefs promised that men who pose the highest risk of violence to women and girls would be actively targeted by police, including with electronic tagging.
The framework sees officers encouraged to report their colleagues for inappropriate and sexist behaviour. If officers retire after being found guilty of misconduct, force bosses will be urged to strip them of their pensions.
Supt Katy Barrow-Grint, Thames Valley Police’s lead for violence against women and girls, said the force welcomed the new framework.
“We are currently developing a strategy to set out how we will better tackle violence against women and girls, in our communities and in our own workplace,” she said.
“This strategy will complement the framework set out by the National Police Chief’s Council and College of Policing and work to their three objectives of improving trust and confidence in policing, relentlessly pursuing perpetrators and creating safer spaces.”
Earlier this week, national police coordinator for violence against women and girls, Deputy Chief Constable Maggie Blyth, acknowledged that the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met Police constable and other examples of officers taking advantage of their position had dealt a ‘hammer blow’ to trust in the service.
Ms Blyth, who as chairman of the Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board led reviews into Oxford’s sex grooming gangs, said: "This year has been a watershed moment for society and policing in how much more needs to be done to radically reduce violence against women and girls.
"In policing, we are determined to seize this moment to make fundamental and long-lasting change."
The comments came as, last week, a former Thames Valley Police officer and staff association rep was found to have pestered a vulnerable colleague with explicit messages and photographs. The misconduct panel hearing the case last week refused to release the officer’s name.
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