A review of laws surrounding the "significantly increasing" problem of online abuse is urgently needed, former culture secretary Maria Miller says.
Conservative MP Ms Miller, chair of the Commons women and equalities committee, said police found it "incredibly difficult" to make current laws work.
She added it was time to get tough on social media networks too, which treat online space as the "Wild West".
The national digital policing lead said responses to victims were inconsistent.
Chief Constable Stephen Kavanagh, of Essex Police, said more officer training was needed across the board.
Mr Kavanagh told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there had been "an explosion of different types of crime taking place in the digital environment - trolling, racial homophobic abuse, sexting, revenge pornography - a whole range of offences which when I joined in 1985 weren't even being imagined".
Source: Online abuse law shake-up urgently needed, Tory Maria Miller says - BBC News
Floody hell...
Conservative MP Ms Miller, chair of the Commons women and equalities committee, said police found it "incredibly difficult" to make current laws work.
She added it was time to get tough on social media networks too, which treat online space as the "Wild West".
The national digital policing lead said responses to victims were inconsistent.
Chief Constable Stephen Kavanagh, of Essex Police, said more officer training was needed across the board.
Mr Kavanagh told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there had been "an explosion of different types of crime taking place in the digital environment - trolling, racial homophobic abuse, sexting, revenge pornography - a whole range of offences which when I joined in 1985 weren't even being imagined".
Source: Online abuse law shake-up urgently needed, Tory Maria Miller says - BBC News
Floody hell...
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