HOME SECRETARY Shabana Mahmood said that victims of sexual offences face a policing “postcode lottery” as she prepares to replicate the Metropolitan Police’s V100 initiative to tackle violence against women and girls (VAWG).

Specialist rape and sex offences investigators will be introduced to every police force as part of reforms to the government’s violence VAWG strategy set to be introduced this week.

The V100 initiative is a data analytics tool which has more than doubled the likelihood of arrest for the most harmful suspects of violence against women and girls in London.

Responding to claims by the Institute for Government that currently up to 50 per cent of police officers currently on sexual violence and rape squads are trainees, Ms Mahmood told Sky News: “It is a postcode lottery at the moment if you are a victim in terms of the standard of service you are going to get when your allegation is being investigated by the police and whether that is going to lead to charges ultimately and hopefully a successful prosecution.”

She added that society is “very far to the other side of what is acceptable” in terms of freedom of speech which is misogynist when asked whether the government was crossing a line in trying to clamp down on young men being interested in misogynist influences like Andrew Tate.

“There is always going to be a line but we are very far to the other side of what is acceptable of that line at the moment,” she said.

“It is right that we think about how we give schools and parents the tools they need to make sure they are raising boys who will grow to be healthy young men in their own right, with a good understanding of what a healthy relationship is.

“It is important that the state takes some action, because we are not willing to just sit back and accept that VAWG is just a fact of life.”

Plans will also be explored to widen a disclosure scheme to allow for more offenders to have their past convictions released to their partners on request.

Ministers have faced criticism over delays to publishing the plan to halve violence against women and girls in the next 10 years.