With three decades experience under her belt, NSW Police's Detective Superintendent Jayne Doherty is trying to change the way sexual assault victim-survivors can access and receive help.
As the head of the NSW Sex Crimes Squad , she doesn't shy away from the fact securing a conviction in a sexual assault case is often a challenge."The promise that I can make to victims is that we as NSW Police will work as hard as we can to walk alongside of them on the journey that they choose to take," Superintendent Doherty told ABC News.
While Superintendent Doherty would not comment on the review, she conceded "anything that paints victims in a negative or positive way affects people coming forward". Two years later, she oversaw the introduction of a new online portal, which allows victims to anonymously report sexual assaults to NSW Police without any obligation to take the matter further.
That equates to about 330 SARO reports every month and has stayed consistently high ever since, with 1,566 reports so far this year.While the vast majority of victims who use SARO don't want to take the matter further, it has helped police identify potential serial offenders. "We've invited those victims in either to give statements to support the charges with them as a victim or even just to support another victim as a witness.
"Our Indigenous communities, quite often they're reluctant to bring police into the community ... so if you report something to police and then they come into your community to investigate it, you've brought them in and there's that bad blood within the community," she said.
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