Costly report into Rotherham police failings ‘lets down’ grooming survivors

Police and crime commissioner disappointed' as child sexual abuse inquiry fails to identify individual accountability'

A long 6m investigation into multiple police failings during the Rotherham grooming scandal lets down victims and survivors" by failing to identify any individual accountability, a police and crime commissioner has said.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) on Wednesday published what it described as its overarching report from Operation Linden, the name given to a series of investigations it carried out into how South Yorkshire police responded to allegations of child sexual abuse and exploitation between 1997 and 2013.