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Met Police reviewing 9,000 grooming cases
The Metropolitan Police will review 9,000 child abuse cases linked to grooming gangs and county lines drug trafficking to identify missed investigations and safeguard victims.
- On October 24, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley announced the force will review 9,000 cases from a 15-year period, with initial assessments due by April 2026.
- Following a government-ordered audit, authorities moved to reassess cases after finding Baroness Louise Casey's audit showed wider, underreported exploitation and a recording mismatch, while recent MyLondon, the Express and the Evening Standard investigations will be reviewed.
- Since 2022 the Met has trained 11,000 frontline officers, solved three times more CSE cases last year and charged 134 more suspects, while Scotland Yard investigates 716 CSE cases and 654 reports since April.
- The Met will reassess about 600 investigations per year to identify missed leads, safeguarding needs, with Rowley warning the full review could cost many millions and take several years.
- There appears to be significant overlap between child sexual abuse and county lines drug trafficking gangs, the Met said, while MyLondon and the Express investigations pressured reviews of traumatised victims disbelieved repeatedly.
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