Spiking is to be made a specific criminal offence for the first time, the government revealed on Monday. The new offence would mean perpetrators "feel the full force of the law", prime minister Sir Keir Starmer said. It comes as he met with police and hospitality bosses on Monday morning alongside home secretary Yvette Cooper.
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00:00I mean welcome everybody here this morning thank you so much for coming for what is a really
00:04important discussion. The focus obviously is violence against women and girls that's big
00:10and we have five big sort of missions that we're going to deliver and one of them is I
00:15obviously worked on it for five years when I was director of public prosecutions on the sort of
00:20arrest of prosecution part of it which is a section of it but by no means all of it's so
00:25important we do it because as everybody around this table knows this is pernicious and we're
00:30determined to do so. There's a wide range of issues which many of you know about which we
00:35will be working through today we're focusing on spiking which is a really significant offence
00:42certainly ruining of lives and the first is to make spiking a specific offence
00:48across different police forces because at the moment it's quite hard to get your
00:51balance around a few numbers.