Met officers dissuaded children from making sexual abuse claims, report finds
by Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6JG5A)
Other failures listed in damning official report include blaming children for making poor choices'
Metropolitan police officers tried to put off children from making complaints about alleged sexual abuse and privately blamed young people for crimes suffered, a damning official report has revealed.
Most investigations into child exploitation were rated as inadequate by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC). Of the 244 cases it examined, 43 were graded as good, more than half (121) as inadequate and 80 as needing improvement.
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