Exclusive: The team established by the Met Police after Jo Cox's murder has received four reports of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, four of common assault, 41 of harassment and 379 complaints of malicious communications.
The specialist police unit set up to investigate crimes against MPs has received 558 complaints since its inception and has seen a huge increase in reports in the last year, BuzzFeed News can reveal.
The unit has received four reports of trespass, 20 regarding criminal damage and 88 allegations of theft.The numbers represent a sharp spike in complaints received by the police in recent months, as MPs at Westminster were targeted with abuse both online and in public. “I work closely with the House Authorities on security matters and I know they work hard to keep all MPs safe, but this is a reminder of the rising challenge we face and the need to do more to make politics a safer, more respectable place.”Mother of the House Harriet Harman told BuzzFeed News the rise in complaints meant a parliamentary version of Cobra, the government’s emergency response committee, should be formed ahead of the crunch Brexit votes next week.
Catherine Anderson, the chief executive of the Jo Cox Foundation, said the real numbers were likely to be even worse. “If we do not as a society begin to call out this behaviour, improve reporting routes, and detoxify public life, we risk deterring brilliant people from coming forward to represent us in the future. This cannot and should not be tolerated."
In 2017 the then-Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston told the Guardian that her constituency office had been graffitied by masked men, and in 2016 Labour’s Angela Eagle had a brick thrown through her constituency office window.
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