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SCOTLAND Yard is under investigation over allegations that police covered up child-sex offences because MPs and police officers were involved.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it is investigating 14 allegations of corruption in the Metropolitan Police relating to child-sex offences from the 1970s to the 2000s.
The claims — which were referred to the IPCC by the Met — include suppressing evidence, hindering or halting investigations and covering up offences because MPs and police officers were involved.
IPCC deputy chairwoman Sarah Green said: “These allegations are of historic high-level corruption of the most serious nature … (They) are of grave concern and I would like to reassure people of our absolute commitment to ensuring that the investigations are thorough and robust.”
Among the 14 referrals is a claim that a parliamentary document found at a child-sex offender’s address linked a number of “highly prominent individuals” including MPs and senior police officers to a paedophile ring but that no further action was taken.
Another allegation is that an abuse victim’s account was altered to omit a senior politician’s name.
It is also alleged that no further action was taken into claims of child-sex abuse involving a former senior Met officer and “further members of the Establishment including judges.”
An investigation into young men being targeted in Dolphin Square, the apartment complex popular with MPs, was also allegedly stopped because officers were “too near prominent people,” the IPCC said.
It comes after South Yorkshire Police Commissioner Dr Alan Billings last week called for an “inspection” after allegations of a police cover-up of abuse in Sheffield.
The force has already been shamed over its failure to tackle abuse in Rotherham.
Dr Billings said: “Public confidence in South Yorkshire Police has been severely damaged by these most recent allegations that the force failed to listen to hundreds of abused young people in Sheffield, as we know they failed in Rotherham.”
