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crisis among child sex abuse police

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petallus Sat 12-Jul-14 19:51:01

An article in today's Guardian says that police who deal with sexual abuse cases are collapsing under the strain because they are inundated with historic cases.

Pressure from Westminster politicians and the media has forced police to divert attention from children at risk today to historic cases.

Officers feel considerable frustration because the political climate means current cases cannot be dealt with.

I mention this because I have for some time been frustrated and concerned that all this attention is going to stuff that happened so many years ago, probably at a cost to children in danger in the present time.

This is a brief summary of the article. Could not locate it online to give a link.

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whenim64 Mon 14-Jul-14 05:34:26

Hmmm hmm £1.1 billion extra money for new defence technology announced here:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2691055/Cameron-pledges-1-1bn-Forces-fight-cyber-terrorism-Money-spent-new-intelligence-surveillance-technology-including-underwater-drones.html

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absent Mon 14-Jul-14 05:46:39

Wasn't funding for Scotland Yard's specialist child pornography unit - which, of course, was also dealing with child abuse, given that it involves photography and videos - cut a couple of years ago?

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whenim64 Mon 14-Jul-14 06:00:00

Hi absent nice to see you! smile Yes, it was cut, as you say. Perhaps I have pre-empted David Cameron's imminent announcement that £1.1 billion is also to be given to resource all this extra police detection, investigation and prosecution work, in which case I do apologise, Dave hmm

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