UK police probed over cover-up of child abuse
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The watchdog which oversees British police said it had launched an investigation into allegations London police chiefs dropped inquiries into child sex abuse claims because they involved politicians and high profile figures.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission said it would examine allegations police suppressed evidence, hindered investigations into pedophile rings and covered up crimes because they involved lawmakers and police officers.
London鈥檚 Metropolitan Police it itself currently investigating claims of sex crimes involving powerful establishment figures from the 1970s and 1980s, including claims that three young boys had been murdered.
However, the IPCC will be looking at why detectives failed to act between 1970 and 2005 after victims and some former officers came forward to say inquiries had been either dropped or accusations ignored.
鈥淭hese allegations are of historic, high level corruption of the most serious nature,鈥 said IPCC Deputy Chairman Sarah Green. 鈥淎llegations of this nature are of grave concern and I would like to reassure people of our absolute commitment to ensuring that the investigations are thorough and robust.鈥
The IPCC said among the 14 allegations was a claim an investigation targeting young men in Dolphin Square, a block of flats close to parliament, had been dropped 鈥渂ecause officers were too near prominent people.鈥
The British government has ordered a major inquiry into decades of child abuse and whether powerful figures covered it up, following a series of scandals. These included revelations that late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile abused hundreds of victims for decades, and accusations about Cyril Smith, a former lawmaker in northwest England who died in 2010.
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