[Breitbart] A senior police detective who was involved in an operation that failed to go after a predominantly Pak child rape gang has been elevated to a top position dealing with sexual abuse against children.Tony Cook, an investigating officer in the failed Operation Augusta, was promoted to the head of operations at the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre in Manchester four years ago, despite the institutional failure of the operation to protect children from a Pak grooming gang in the mid-2000s.
In a report last week detailing the failures of Operation Augusta, it was revealed that officers were told to focus on arresting grooming gang offenders of "other ethnicities" so as to not appear racist.
Detective Cook has denied that race played a role in the failure of the operation, saying in comments reported by The Times: "Any concerns about creating further community tensions did not influence any of his investigative decisions."
The report, which relied heavily on Cook’s notes from the time, paints a different picture, however, quoting the inspector as saying there were "sensitive community issues" around the case and that perpetrators were "predominantly adult Asian men".
Maggie Oliver, a former detective turned whistleblower on the failed operation, recommended that senior officers in the case should be prosecuted.
"I want the law changing so there can be retrospective accountability for people whose duty it is to protect the vulnerable. It’s knowing and deliberate neglection of duty... [those who were involved] should be charged with gross misconduct ‐ it’s criminal ‐ where is the accountability?" the former detective said.
Operation Augusta was initiated after a 15-year-old girl, Victoria Agoglia, died after being injected with heroin by her 50-year-old Asian male abuser, a man who the report claimed remains unpunished to this day.
The operation was shut down due to the inability "to put permanent staff into Operation Augusta", claimed another senior officer. The report insisted that Tony Cook had no role in the shutting down of the operation.
Police Knew About Rotherham ‘Asian’ Rape Gangs But Ignored Them over Fears of ‘Racial Tensions’: Report[Breitbart] A report has found that police in Rotherham ignored decades of abuse carried out by ’Asian’ grooming gangs against maiden of tender yearss for fear of sparking "racial tensions".
After years of denials by police in the north and Midlands, who claimed that race played no role in their inadequate response to the grooming gang epidemic, a report from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has found just the opposite.
According to the IOPC, a Rotherham chief inspector told the father of a missing girl that the town "would erupt" if it were revealed that south Asian grooming gangs were preying on young white girls.
The officer described the abuse epidemic as "P*** shagging" and said that he had been aware that it "had been going on for 30 years and the police could do nothing because of racial tensions", per the Rotherham Advertiser.
"With it being Asians, we can’t afford for this to be coming out as Rotherham would erupt," said the chief inspector.
The report was sparked by a complaint from a victim who was sexually abused by a Rotherham rape gang for several years starting in 2003. The IOPC said to the victim that it was "very clear that you were sexually exploited by Asian men" adding that the local police force "took insufficient action to prevent you from harm", according to The Times.
In response to the failures of police in Rotherham and in Manchester, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: "Tackling this abuse is a priority for the Home Office, which is why I have accelerated the delivery of the Tackling Child Sex Abuse strategy that will put victims first. There will be no no-go areas."
The victim who sparked the investigation, who is now in her early 30s, said that she was "heartbroken" that the report did not recommend prosecution for any of the police involved in covering up grooming gang crimes but said that the report vindicated her complaints.
"It’s great that I have been vindicated finally after all these years, but yet again no-one is going to be made accountable for the failings that happened with my case ‐ I’ve not even received an apology from South Yorkshire Police," she said, adding: "For 18 years I have being trying to prove that I’m not a liar, that I didn’t make it up."
"I’m really, really disgusted in what was in there [the report] ‐ basically, that victims and their families were sacrificed. Their lives ruined, living with a life sentence because of fear of racial tension," she concluded.
The IOPC report was launched following the Jay Report, which found that 1,400 children were sexually exploited by Rotherham rape gangs between 1997 and 2013. So far, 36 men and two women have been given a total of 550 years in prison in relation to the scandal.
The South Yorkshire Police accepted the findings of the report, saying that it has "been working to address the issues it raises since the publication of the Jay Report in 2014". However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits...
it went on to decry the lack of accountability for the officers involved in overlooking the crimes committed by the grooming gangs.
"After such a lengthy IOPC investigation it is disappointing that no individual officer has been identified as this is not something we would tolerate in today’s force," the statement read.
Related:
Manchester: 2020-01-16 Fears over race relations affected Manchester police probe into child sex grooming gang, report suggests
Manchester: 2020-01-07 Indonesian student jailed as Britain's worst rapist
Manchester: 2019-11-26 UK Parliament may See Record Number Of British-Pakistainers
Manchester: 2020-01-16 Fears over race relations affected Manchester police probe into child sex grooming gang, report suggests
Manchester: 2020-01-07 Indonesian student jailed as Britain's worst rapist
Manchester: 2019-11-26 UK Parliament may See Record Number Of British-Pakistainers
Related:
Rotherham: 2019-11-15 Our ‘hidden’ shame
Rotherham: 2019-10-27 The Muslim Man’s Sexual “Rights” Over Non-Muslim Women
Rotherham: 2019-10-09 3 Kasur men arrested for alleged sexual assault of teenage boy for nearly three years
Rotherham: 2019-11-15 Our ‘hidden’ shame
Rotherham: 2019-10-27 The Muslim Man’s Sexual “Rights” Over Non-Muslim Women
Rotherham: 2019-10-09 3 Kasur men arrested for alleged sexual assault of teenage boy for nearly three years
Related:
South Yorkshire: 2019-05-09 Rotherham abuse scandal: 40 arrests made in last two months
South Yorkshire: 2018-10-30 Seven convicted in Rotherham grooming gang trial in first MAJOR prosecution
South Yorkshire: 2018-10-20 20 men found guilty of raping more than a dozen teenage girls in northern England
South Yorkshire: 2019-05-09 Rotherham abuse scandal: 40 arrests made in last two months
South Yorkshire: 2018-10-30 Seven convicted in Rotherham grooming gang trial in first MAJOR prosecution
South Yorkshire: 2018-10-20 20 men found guilty of raping more than a dozen teenage girls in northern England