Police officials also misbehaved ‘Roderham Grooming gang victims

Warning: This story describes sexual violence

Five women were exploited to prepare gangs in Roderham as children say that they were misused by police officers at that time.

One says that he was raped by 12 years of age by a serving South Yorkshire Police (SYP) officer in a marked police car. She says that if she did not follow, she would threaten to hand over it back to the gang.

“In a world where you were being abused, once raped [by a police officer] Was much easier than many rapes [by the gang] And I think she knew that, “she tells the BBC.

We have seen the written accounts of these women, as well as testified with 25 other victims of the gangs, some of them said that corrupt police officers worked with gangs or failed to work on child sexual abuse.

At least 1,400 girls were abused by men’s gangs, mainly identified as Pakistani heritage by the victims, between 1997 and 2013, the Landmark J report was concluded in 2014.

A new criminal inquiry into the involvement of police officers in the Roderham Grooming Scam is now being led by the Major Crime Unit of SYP under the direction of Police Watchdog.

Professor Alexis J. led an independent investigation into an independent investigation into the city that he is “surprised” that the SIP is investigating its former officials and says that criminal investigation should be handed over to another force or independent body.

In response, Hail Bharnet, SyP Assistant Chief Constable said: “We know how difficult it should be for a victim or survivor, which has been so badly disappointed in the past, to have his faith in today’s South Yorkshire Police.”

But he said that the victims and the remaining people were “in the heart” of investigation, all the works were taken into their best interests.

Shocking allegations to 30 witness accounts seen by allegations of BBC expansion:

• In the early 2000s to the early 2000s, in the years of misbehaving with police officers, in the same time, Rotham Grooming Gangs is being exploited by Rotham Grooming Gangs.
• Most of the alleged victims were in their teens, but some were 11 years old.
• A woman says that as a child she hears a police officer having sex with girls in exchange for drugs and money.
• Another woman says that as a child, she saw a police officer supplied an illegal class -e -drugs to a grooming gang.
• Three women described being beaten by the authorities as children – one says it happened in a police cell

The accounts of women observed by the BBC have been re -designed to protect their identity. He was collected by an expert child abuse legal firm, Switultskis Solicitor, as part of the dialect to bring safe compensation for a separate civil claim against SIP and safe compensation for alleged victims.

One of the women, Wilo – not her real name – says she was sexually abused by hundreds of men, five years after being targeted for the first time, by a groom’s gang in 1997, by a groom’s gang.

She says that two police officers also sexually abused her. In three years, SYP officers will once track it and take him to a police car at Roderham Town Center, she says.

“He knew where we used to roam, he either requested oral sex or raped us behind the police car,” she tells the BBC.

If she tried to reject her requests, Willow says, she would directly contact the groom gang to threaten her.

She says, “I will rape once once, or give oral sex to a man, where I know it would be 15 … one after another. It was just easy,” she says.

When she was pressurized by an illegal abortion by the gang that was under pressure, she says that a young activist approached social services and police. But she was “destroyed”, she says, when an officer who was abusing him turned to interview him.

A few days later, the same officer put her statement in front of her and threw her into bin, she says, and no further action was taken.

Out of 30 women, who gave their accounts to Switultkis Solicitor, only 17 have agreed to the testimony to the police.

Some of the remaining potential witnesses are withdrawn by SyP tests, some say that they do not trust the force or have lost faith in the justice system.

“This is beyond belief, the accounts we have heard,” says Amy Clove of Switultsis, who have been collecting testimony to alleged police misconduct, corruption and misconduct in Roderham for 10 years.

“There is no accountability in the city – and without accountability, the South Yorkshire police will continue to mistrust,” she says.

In response, the South Yorkshire police told us that he has “a dedicated team of dedicated dedicated dedicated people who have worked diligently to detect all the lines of investigation” and is being seen by the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC).

Another survivor of Emma, a grooming gang – not his real name – says that the current investigation of the former officials and their role in the Roderham scam should have been decades ago.

“We have forgotten the children. We are small secrets dirty. Similarly they see us,” she says.

Emma was in care in the late 1990s and often fled from children’s homes. When she was found, she will be raped by a police officer, she says.

She targeted the children in care, she says that she knew that she was weak, playing on her fear and naivety.

“He knew that we would not remember, he knew that we would not be reported. He knew that we would not be able to say anything. He knew that she had upper hand,” she would say.

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Professor Alexis J believes that “there were many, many legitimate reasons for the victims and the remaining people to feel the total lack of confidence in SIP”, the way some officials were treated in force,

She says that it is important that the potential struggles of interests “bring to light before the process begins”, she says.

She wants the current criminal investigation run by an independent police force – or even His Majesty’s Inspector of Constable and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRs), which assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of forces.

“In many cases so far, the priority for the institution, any kind of, is to protect their reputation rather than prioritizing the welfare of children and the devastating effects that can be sexually abused,” says Pro Jai.

David Greenwood of Switalcis Solicitor says that he does not believe that there are no officers who are “buried evidence or only the evidence are not able to deliberately”, because they can know some people involved in the allegations.

“I am sure the whole truth is not yet out in the context of the level of corruption and its range in Roderham,” they say.

While the police is overseeing the sentinel, IOPC, SYP, one of the pre -investigators says that he has no confidence in doing good work.

Gary Harper spent two years working on IOPC Operation Lindon – an inquiry on how Syp responded to allegations of child sexual abuse in Roderham between 1997 and 2013.

The eight -year investigation was “a failure from the beginning to the end”, calling Mr. Harper, adding that SYP “managed to avoid almost any accountability”.

Watchdog upheld 43 complaints against individual officials, in which eight misconduct faced and six faced allegations of gross misconduct. But no officer lost his job or faced criminal allegations.

“Operation Linden included 91 investigations in Operation Linden,” a spokesman for IOPC. “We concluded in 2022 that SYP was fundamentally failed to protect weak children and youth during that time.”

Regarding the current criminal investigation, the spokesperson stated that they were “satisfied that there was no conflict of interests” and that IOPC was assured by SyP that “no investigating officers had either acted under investigation with any former officer, or they were investigated as part of Operation Lindon”.

We cannot see the names of former SYP officers referred to in the accounts of our alleged victims, as women’s accounts have been defined again.

But three former officials have been arrested from December 2024 on suspicion of historic sexual offenses – including a public office rape, indecent attack and attempt to misconduct. Crimes allege that it took place between 1995 and 2004, while the officials were on duty as PCs. No one has been charged.

But the BBC understands that an alleged victim, Willow – in a report to the police – has named PC Hasan Ali as raping her.

“For the first time, he really said: ‘You do it for another officer. So you are going to do it for me,” she tells us.

PC Ali died in January 2015, a week later when he collided with a car. On the day the collision occurred, he was placed on restricted duties due to the investigation of alleged misconduct in the scam of misconduct. He was never arrested.

Willow also says that the two officials including PC Ali abused him, who were also involved in the supply of drugs.

A SYP spokesperson told the BBC that the complaints received by the force about Hasan Ali were not related to drugs and concerned, “Failure to share information and protect the victims on a date”.

Former IOPC investigator Gary Harper says that he also knew about the allegations in front of PC Ali – and says that during Operation Linden, an officer’s link was discussed with organized crime groups inside the IOPC during Operation Linden.

He says, “There were many complaints that they had supplied drugs and at the same time sexually abused some survivors.”

At that time, IOPC and SYP knew about another officer accused of misbehavior against children, saying, but SYP allowed the officer to retire.

“The best it was an iconic covering exercise. It was incredibly generous to them. The worst, it was corruption out and out that he let it go.”

IOPC told the BBC that there was a “no record” of such allegations against PC Ali, which was raised by any of the victim-partners involved in Operation Linden “.

It said that it had investigated a third party report that a former officer had sex with “two young weak women”. These individuals were spoken as adults and refused.

The South Yorkshire police told the BBC that there was no part of the current inquiry of the force, “he was accused of rape at the time of his retirement”.

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