Walk in My Shoes
‘Walk in My Shoes’ is a campaign by Nottinghamshire Police designed to empower all women and girls, including those who identify as a woman, to report where they feel unsafe and for us to understand how they’re feeling in our city and county.
Violence against women and girls is a national threat to the UK. It’s also one of the force’s key strategic objectives.
In our control room, we receive calls from women and girls every day who have been subjected to unwanted behaviour from men – this has to stop.
Our campaign aims to help tackle violence against women and girls, and the first step is for us to listen and understand the women in our communities right here in Nottinghamshire.
The main objectives of our campaign are to;
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Create safer spaces in Nottinghamshire
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Make women and girls feel safer through our actions, alongside our partners
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Address misogyny early – challenge attitudes and behaviours of boys in schools and educate early. This will be a whole county and schools approach including joint working with partners, schools, councils, etc
We’ve carefully selected locations across the region with digital screens across the city and county to show our campaign creatives, as well as Channel 4 ad pause which will all be live from Monday 31 March for eight weeks.
We’re working with Equation - a Nottingham-based specialist charity that works with the whole community to reduce the impact of domestic abuse, sexual violence and gender inequality - on involvement with their misogyny training in schools. Our Schools Early Intervention Officers (SEIO) and Neighbourhood Policing Teams (NPT) will attend alongside them in primary and secondary schools across our county for the campaign period and take learnings from the sessions.
There will be various public events across the region throughout the campaign period where we’ll be handing out QR code cards with our officers and PCSOs to encourage women and girls to fill in our survey.
The key call to action in our campaign is to encourage all women and girls in Nottinghamshire to fill in the survey, in order for us to gain as much valuable data from the women in our communities as possible and put into action what we can to ensure they feel safer through our actions, creating safer spaces, alongside our partners.
Whilst we recognise that the responsibility for behaviour change lies solely with the perpetrators of these crimes, we want to listen to and understand the women in our communities and solve some of the problem areas that have been pointed out to us.
We want to have fewer victims, fewer offences and less demand on policing, achieved by addressing underlying causes and using partnership-oriented problem solving.