Greater Manchester Police have continued to roll out the Home Office led Domestic Abuse Protection Order (DAPO) pilot, this time to Tameside.
Already, they have secured four orders in the first week.
The new orders join over 300 others already secured in Bury, Wigan and Manchester since the pilot began in November 2024.
One recently obtained order is the longest that has so far been secured in the whole country. At the end of June 2025, police obtained a ten-year DAPO upon conviction of a domestic abuse perpetrator, where he received a two-year suspended sentence, community service and a rehabilitation order for assault.
The survivor, who is being referred to as Lucy (not her real name), whilst initially not wanting to engage, did in fact bravely open up to officers from our dedicated domestic abuse team in Bury about suffering physical abuse at the hands of her partner.
To protect Lucy, as the perpetrator was due to be released from prison, we applied for and secured a DAPO with her support, so this could be taken into consideration at sentencing.
Due to the strength of the application, Lucy’s powerful impact statement, and the risk posed to her, the judge granted a ten-year order, protecting her from further harm until 2035.
The significant length of this order will allow Lucy to now start rebuilding her life free from abuse. This order will be proactively monitored by our team at Bury for the whole length of time to enable that.
Domestic abuse lead, Detective Superintendent Jen Tattersall, said, “The DAPO pilot so far has been an overwhelming success, and we are working closely with the Home Office and Ministry of Justice to ensure that our roll out can continue across the force, therefore protecting more victims and survivors.
“Whilst we are of course still actively pursuing perpetrators criminally first and foremost, we understand the complexities of domestic abuse and that sending perpetrators to prison is not what every victim or survivor wants.
“These orders allow us to protect them with or without their support or evidence, if we believe there is a risk posed to that person. The length of some of these orders, like the one secured in Bury recently, provide much more time than previous orders for survivors to get space from perpetrators, and make decisions in their own time about the future.
“Our intention is to continue rolling the pilot out across the force and make a positive difference to the lives of those impacted by abuse of all kinds.”
