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Rochdale sex-grooming gangs able to flourish due to police errors says report
Greater Manchester police failed vulnerable girls in multiple ways, from lack of oversight to use of untrained CID staff
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A Rochdale shop displays a bulletin on the arrest of nine men on child sexual exploitation charges in 2011. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

A catalogue of police failures allowed sex-grooming gangs to flourish in Rochdale, according to a damning, leaked report that is published on Friday. Among the failings identified in the 300-page report, untrained detectives were used to investigate child exploitation and there was a lack of resources and oversight.

The serious case review was announced by Rochdale Council last year after nine Asian men were convicted of the systematic grooming and sexual abuse of white girls in Greater Manchester. The findings of the review have resulted in an acknowledgement by Greater Manchester police [GMP] that the force has let down a number of vulnerable girls who were groomed by gangs for sexual abuse.

An internal police investigation, highlighted in the serious case review, also found a failure to recognise abuse.

The internal police review found that:

• Officers failed to challenge a Crown Prosecution Service decision not to prosecute.

• There was a lack of resources and managerial support for the investigations, initially led by CID, despite formal requests.

• Detectives without training in child sexual exploitation were used to interview potential victims.

• There was a lack of managerial oversight for investigations in 2008 and 2009.

• There was a lack of strategies to respond to frequent "runaways", which allowed them to return to their abusers.

• There was a recognition that there may have been discriminatory attitudes among police officers towards the victims.

But despite the list of acknowledged problems, the police made just one recommendation – that the force's public protection division should ensure continued participation in Project Phoenix, which has been set up to direct a multi-agency approach to child sexual exploitation in the region.

The serious case review panel raised questions about the police response and made two further recommendations: that GMP should establish a system to monitor and review how it escalates safeguarding cases, and that it commits to maintaining a child sexual exploitation team and to working proactively with Rochdale council.

Police also admitted that of 40 meetings to discuss child protection for one of the victims, there is no record of police attendance or involvement at any of them. The report argues that "this represents a serious weakness for the police" and that concerns about police attendance were raised in 2009.

"As a result, the review has been left with an incomplete and unsatisfactory picture of the involvement of the police in the routine child protection processes," it concludes.

Simon Danczuk, the local Labour MP, said police need to show better leadership. "Senior police officers keep talking about deploying more resources, but they're sending out untrained officers who cannot win the trust of victims. We need better leadership on this issue," he said.

The serious case review was announced in September 2012, four months after the grooming gang was convicted. The men were jailed for between four and 19 years for the abuse of five girls, some as young as 13. It is believed there may be up to 50 victims in all.

The trial resulted in a national debate over the role of gangs of largely Pakistani men in grooming white girls. The police and local authority in Rochdale came in for heavy criticism when details emerged of what had been happening.

The men, aged between 24 and 59, plied victims, who hung around two takeaways in the area, with drink and drugs before the girls were "passed around" for sex.

One girl, aged 15 at the time and who was repeatedly raped, said in an interview with BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour that after she became pregnant, local social services told her parents she was a "prostitute" and that she had simply made a "lifestyle choice".

The girl had also reported the abuse to a police officer – who simply yawned.

One police whistleblower welcomed the report but commented that it had only scratched the surface of problems in the force.

Margaret Oliver, a detective constable within GMP who worked on the Rochdale grooming cases but resigned last year over the way the police treated the victims, said the report went only part of the way to exposing the mistakes within the force.

She said: "I have spoken to victims in the last week who still come face to face with their abusers in Rochdale because the police have failed to pursue them.

"If GMP had done its job properly, they would not be walking the streets. It was my job to persuade some of these young girls to come to trust the police to being on their side.

"But one of those who came forward – who was subjected to multiple rapes and was brave enough to identify her abusers in an ID parade – was added to the indictment as an offender as a tactical 'option' by the force," she said.

Sir Peter Fahy, the chief constable for Greater Manchester, said: "I think we all know that [child sexual exploitation] is the most complex and challenging area of policing right now and we are near the very beginning of a long journey in our understanding of it. It is GMP's top priority, and the welfare of these victims should now be at the very forefront of everything we do.

"The failings detailed in this report are unacceptable, and we should never lose sight of the fact that we have let down some innocent victims."

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This is the man who earned between £195,000-£199,999 as head of the CPS which failed to tackle the grooming gangs.

It looks like he will join the morally bankrupt Labour Party who have a few issues of its own.

http://labour25.com/2012/08/05/labour-councillor-for-leicester-manish-sood-found-guilty-of-grooming-school-kids-for-sex/

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28 December 2013 Last updated at 09:36 Keir Starmer heads Labour's victim treatment review

Former chief prosecutor Keir Starmer is to advise Labour on the best way to protect rape victims and abused children from harrowing questioning during court cases.

He said it was a "golden opportunity" to change the law, while Labour called the current code of conduct followed by barristers "toothless".

The review follows several complaints about the questioning of crime victims.

The government said it had already "considerably improved" the system.

Violinist Frances Andrade killed herself after giving evidence against former teacher Michael Brewer, who was later found guilty of indecently assaulting his pupil.

Concerns were also raised about how the child victims of a paedophile ring in Oxfordshire were questioned, leading to calls for pre-recorded cross-examinations and barristers to undergo compulsory training.

'Victims' law'

Mr Starmer, who stood down as director of public prosecutions earlier this year, said he would advise Labour on introducing legislation - if the party won power at the 2015 general election - to give greater protection to vulnerable witnesses in court.

He acknowledged that the current government was addressing the treatment of victims but insisted that a "faster shift" was needed to enshrine their rights in law.

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The more vulnerable you are as a victim or witness, the less able our criminal justice system is to protect you."

"Most victims, particularly vulnerable victims, don't have the confidence to come forward. Most of them have a pretty awful journey through the court process and nearly all of them, at the end of it, say they will never do it again."

'Troubling case'

Referring to the treatment in court of celebrity chef Nigella Lawson during the recent trial of her two former assistants, Mr Starmer said it had been a "troubling case".

"In any courtroom up and down England and Wales you will have similar experiences day in, day out," he said.

"I think particularly of the child sexual abuse cases and so-called grooming cases. In those cases victims were put through a very great ordeal and so were witnesses so it is troubling.

"Our criminal justice system has been set up as a straight fight between the prosecution and defendant and victims and witnesses have had a walk on part. We need to rethink that and make sure that we do have a system fit for victims and witnesses, and we don't at the moment."

Asked about reports that his new advisory role was a prelude to a new political career with Labour, Mr Starmer said he was "considering a number of options".

The changes proposed by Mr Starmer could also see victims of crime given "minimum standards of service" and a single point of contact so they find it easier to get information about the progress of their cases.

Mr Starmer's task force also includes Labour peer Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, whose son Stephen was murdered, and Peter Neyroud, former chief constable of Thames Valley Police and a criminologist at Cambridge University.

'Confusing and inadequate'

Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said the proposals, if implemented, would give the public greater confidence in the criminal justice system.

He said: "At the moment, there are a variety of codes and charters across various government agencies which are toothless, confusing and inadequate."

Mr Khan added: "Victims represent some of society's most vulnerable people. That's why we need nothing short of a transformation if we are to deliver a criminal justice service that supports members of the public who have been innocent victims of crime through no fault of their own."

A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "Government has considerably improved the support given to vulnerable victims and witnesses in court, including trialling pre-recorded cross examination, strengthening support for child witnesses and investigating how we might reduce the distress caused from multiple cross examination.

"We have also made sure that, for the first time, victims of the most serious crimes, and all vulnerable and intimidated victims, get vital support like pre-trial therapy and counselling."

He added: "A new victims' code introduced in December also sets out in plain English what people should expect from the moment they report a crime to the end of a trial and tells them who to demand it from if they are not offered it. It also gives victims the option to read out their personal statement and tell the court how crime has affected them for the very first time."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25528966?print=true

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