Chhaya Home Secretary has said that the South Yorkshire police should not be allowed to investigate allegations of sexual abuse of their own officers in Roderham.
Orthodox Chris Filp and Chhaya’s Security Minister Elicia Kirns said that the force should be prevented with any participation in the investigation, so that it could be conducted “fair and independently”.
The BBC told on Tuesday how five women were exploited by dulating the gangs as the children have said that they were misused by police officers in the city at that time.
The Home Office and South Yorkshire Police (SYP) have been contacted for comments.
Witness accounts reported by BBC A woman had a testimony, who said that she was raped by a serving SYP officer in a marked police car from the age of 12.
He claimed that the officer would threaten him to hand over the gang that he was preparing if he did not comply.
SYP said it was a “dedicated team” of detectives in view of the allegations, in which investigation was taken care of by the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC).
But in a letter to Home Secretary Yett Cooper, Filp and Kirns, Professor Alexis J’s idea said that the force should not participate in the investigation itself.
Professor J, who led the landmark probe highlighting the Roderham Grooming Scandal in 2014, stated that the investigation should be handled by another body.
Filp and Kirns said: “It is incredibly related to the fact that the rape and misuse alleged by the South Yorkshire police officers is being investigated by the South Yorkshire Police.
“As long as we recognize that IOPC is overseeing the investigation, this is just not quite good.”
He said: “There can be no conflict of interests that can disrupt the investigation or deny justice.
“These children have already failed more than once – now stood with them.”
Speaking Women’s hour on BBC Radio 4The Inspector of the former His Majesty of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue said that the South Yorkshire Force appeared “was marking his own homework in the most frightening way”.
Honorable Zo Billingham CBE, who spent 12 years in inspecting police forces, said: “Faith and confidence are in this heart and the victims do not believe that it will be done well, and we have to hear the victim’s voice in it.
“It would be perfectly appropriate to ask another police to investigate and investigate independently under the aegis of IOPC and I think it should happen immediately.”
In response to the BBC’s initial report, SYP’s assistant chief constable Hail Bharnet said: “We know how difficult it should be for a victim or survivor, who 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.
