UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By TED THORNHILL
A police force under the spotlight over its handling of child sex exploitation is still prioritising burglary and vehicle crime, according to a new report.
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) found that the emphasis from senior and middle local managers at South Yorkshire Police was still more focused on dealing with other crimes and must act immediately to improve its response.
It also found that intelligence teams were not fully supporting child sexual exploitation investigations and that staffing problems were hampering the investigations.
It said that these matters should be addressed ‘as a matter of urgency’.
South Yorkshire PCC Shaun Wright said there had been ‘a failure of management’ at South Yorkshire Police as he responded to the report, which he commissioned in the summer.
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