Children are at risk because police are slow to follow up evidence of abuse, the police watchdog finds.
Police investigating online child abuse are failing to follow up concerns about suspects, a report has found.
The report found forces did not understand the scale of the problem, despite a large increase in cases. The inspector's report praised the dedication of officers, saying they "often work extremely long hours and on their days off to achieve the best outcome". "Officers often didn't consider the risk posed by the suspect to other children", it concluded, partly because of poor supervision or out-of-date guidance.
In one example, from September 2020, a suspect had uploaded two videos of a nine-year-old girl being raped by a 17-year-old. The case was "incorrectly" rated as low risk.
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