Help make it stop. If you sit by and do nothing when violence is happening around you, you’re guilty of committing the crime of allowing it to happen. ‘Help Make It Stop’ is an interactive film from the Metropolitan Police that allows the viewer to decide how to respond to a domestic violence incident.

Help Make it Stop

If you hear violence or child abuse going on in a household close to yours, it’s your responsibility to call the police to help make it stop. If you sit by and do nothing, then you may become a silent partner to a crime where someone gets killed or maimed very badly. If you hear it, speak up. If it goes on continuously, record what you hear. If you can see what is going on, film it. If someone’s life is in danger, you need to do these things. Your actions could be the help that the potential victim needs to prevent themselves from being murdered. Don’t sit by and watch or listen as things happen…. do something to stop it from happening. Help make it stop.

I remember hearing a child in the block of flats next door to where I was living constantly being bashed by the father, and so I called the police. It might have appeared to the police that there was no reason to call, but I can assure them that there was. The parents obviously denied it to the police, but from that day on I rarely heard the screams and abuse that I’d previously been hearing, and the child was harmed far less often. I’m sure that my call helped change the events that were going on in that household. Yours will too.

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Update: The first novel in our series of seven is now published, and is a courageous story of a young teen growing up in a home filled with domestic violence, and how she manoeuvres her way through such a difficult situation. Click here if you’d like to know more about this novel.

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