NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
05 AUGUST 2014
A national police group is being set up to link child sex abuse investigations involving public figures and institutions such as schools and care homes.
The body, which is set to meet for the first time in September, has asked all 43 police forces in England and Wales as well as the Police Service of Northern Ireland and Police Scotland for details of their ongoing inquiries.
Chief officers and senior investigators have been asked to sit on the group, which could share information between forces where inquiries overlap.
Chief Constable Simon Bailey, who will chair the group, said: “Following a meeting of senior officers in Merseyside in the last few weeks, a stream of work, called Operation Hydrant, was established so as to allow a central strategic co-ordination group to collate and share information, advice and best practice among forces who were investigating allegations of historic child abuse where there were persons of public prominence (PPPs) concerned in the investigation.
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