Police probed over handling of child abuse in Rotherham

FORMER police officers who were in charge when 1,400 youngsters were abused in Rotherham are to be probed for failing to protect children.

The IOPC watchdog is investigating estigating failings by more than 25 members mbers of the South Yorkshire Police olice senior command team between ween 1999 and 2011, it is believed.

Whistleblower Jayne Senior nior MBE, a youth worker, said: “I told or

WHISTLEBLOWER Jayne Senior

them my concerns about groups abusing children in the most horrific ways. But nothing was done. The police told us we didn’t have the evidence.” Dr Angie Heal, who wrote a series of reports for t the force which highlighted abuse, told Sky News: “One senior officer offic said: ‘Our priorities are set by b government, and they are burglary burg and car crime.’” The T IOPC’s Steve Noonan confirmed confi the investigation into the th “complicated case”.