Survey for victims of rape and sexual assault

Are you a victim- survivor of rape or sexual assault, aged 18 or over, that you reported to the police?

Please complete this anonymous survey about your experience with the police to help them improve their service.

The national Operation Soteria is inviting victim-survivors of rape and sexual assault to take part in a survey about your experience with the police. The online survey is completely anonymous.

The survey will help us understand how the police process feels to victims of rape and sexual assault. We will use these findings to help the police improve their service.

All victim-survivors of rape and sexual assault aged 18 and over whose case police know about can complete the survey. Your case may have just started, been ongoing for some time, or be closed. We want to listen to all victim-survivors.

The survey is being conducted by academics at City, University of London, in line with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If you respond you cannot be identified, and your data will be completely anonymous.

You can complete the survey online in your own time, at your own pace, and at a place that feels safe and comfortable to you. It should take no more than 15 minutes to complete.

This is an academic survey conducted by City, University of London, and not a police survey. Please do not report any crimes in the survey as your response will be anonymous and police will not be able to contact you. The results of the survey will however be used by police to improve the police process for victims of rape and sexual assault.

If you or anyone else is in immediate danger, call 999.

If you have been a victim of a rape or sexual assault that you have not reported to police, please do that using the Report rape, sexual assault and other sexual offences form.