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English Phone Service Aimed At Protecting Women As They Walk Home Could Be On The Cards

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12:39 9 Oct 2021


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In England, a phone service aimed at protecting women as they walk home could be on the cards.

Their Home Office says it's received a letter from the boss of BT - proposing an emergency number be used to allow people to have their journeys tracked - triggering an alert if they don't get home.

It's in response to the public outrage over Sarah Everard's murder.

Polly Mackenzie is the director of the cross-party think tank, Demos.

"The proposal here is, in a way, replicating what millions of women do informally with their friends. I've often walked home and stayed on the line to a friend or family member, just so that you know, that somebody will know if anything bad has happened."

English Phone Service Aimed At Protecting Women As They Walk Home Could Be On The Cards

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