"It's about satisfying victims": Police Chief says Domestic Abuse responses are improved after damning report...

(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, June 2016)

The number of 999 calls made to Staffordshire Police by victims reporting domestic abuse has reached a five year high.

Almost twenty four thousand emergency pleas for help were made last year.

But the record figure came as Staffordshire Police was criticised in a damning report by inspectors -- who found "inconsistent and insufficient" responses on some occasions.

Since then hundreds of the force's officers have been retrained.

Chief Superintendent JEFF MOORE is in charge of harm reduction and vulnerability for Staffordshire Police. BBC Radio Stoke's EMMA THOMAS asked him if he was surprised by the HMIC's criticism...