We, the undersigned, call on the UK Government and the Home Secretary to urgently reform laws and policing practices to properly protect victims of coordinated harassment (also known as group stalking or gang stalking).

Thousands of people in the UK - and many more across the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe and beyond - are being subjected to persistent, organised harassment by multiple perpetrators working together. 

In the UK, victims are too often disbelieved, dismissed, or told they are imagining it, leaving them isolated and without adequate protection.

We demand the following key changes:

1. Update harassment and stalking laws to officially recognise “coordinated harassment” as a distinct and aggravated offence, with stronger penalties that reflect the severe, cumulative harm inflicted on victims.
   
   
2. Create safer and more effective reporting procedures so victims can report coordinated harassment without being dismissed, disbelieved, or labelled as mentally unwell.
   
   
3. Improve police and law enforcement training by making specialist training on coordinated and group-based harassment mandatory, so officers can properly identify patterns and take complaints seriously.
   
   
4. Make it mandatory for police forces to record all reported incidents of harassment, even when they initially believe the incidents have not occurred or cannot be immediately verified. These records must be linked so that repeated incidents against the same victim are treated as a potential coordinated campaign.
   
   
5. Require funded victim support organisations, charities, and relevant services to receive specialist training on coordinated harassment and adopt improved practices so victims receive proper recognition and meaningful support instead of being turned away or misdiagnosed.

These reforms would help victims feel believed, reduce the devastating isolation and psychological damage caused by this form of abuse, and send a clear message that coordinated harassment will no longer be tolerated or ignored in the UK.

We also urge the UK Government to show international leadership by encouraging similar legal and policing reforms in the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany, and across Europe.

By signing this petition, you stand with victims of coordinated harassment who have suffered in silence for far too long.

Together, we are far harder to silence.

Please sign and share this petition widely.

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