{"id":569200,"date":"2025-11-14T05:51:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/569200\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T05:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:51:31","slug":"met-police-investigating-tens-of-grooming-gang-cases-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/569200\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Police investigating ‘tens of grooming gang cases’"},"content":{"rendered":"

During Thursday’s meeting, the police commissioner set out details of a national review of child exploitation cases, which has prompted recent political debate.<\/p>\n

Sir Mark said a data search had initially identified about 9,000 historic cases<\/a> in London that might fall under a national definition of group-based sexual offending, which includes any case with two or more suspects and at least one victim.<\/p>\n

He also said that figure had been widely misinterpreted as 9,000 grooming gang cases and had led to “unbalanced reporting”.<\/p>\n

He said the definition used by the national audit was far broader than the public understanding of grooming gangs and covered intra-familial offending, institutional abuse, peer-on-peer cases and online exploitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During Thursday’s meeting, the police commissioner set out details of a national review of child exploitation cases, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-569200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115546494233856556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}