'We've got to take it out of their hands sometimes

As the police car pulls up on a quiet cul-de-sac in Wigan , another vehicle drives off, raising suspicions.

PC Carl Beck proceeds towards the property. He knocks on. No answer. Then he hears something.

"Who opened the back door?" he asks the woman who eventually appears. "Me," she responds.

The officers aren't convinced. They ask if they can have a quick look inside, but she refuses.

"I'm absolutely fine," she tells them, explaining that she's running late for work. "You're embarrassing me."

"There's nothing we can do," PC Chris Wilcock tells the Manchester Evening News when she walks back in.

The woman is not a criminal. She has done nothing wrong. She is a victim of domestic abuse and the police want to protect her.

Back in February, the woman's partner was locked up after pol