{"id":229379,"date":"2025-10-28T03:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229379\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T03:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:48:23","slug":"mayor-and-met-denying-grooming-gangs-in-london-farage-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229379\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor and Met &#8216;denying&#8217; grooming gangs in London, Farage says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mayor&#8217;s spokesperson said that the Met would &#8220;leave no stone unturned&#8221; in investigating child sexual exploitation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sadiq wants justice for every single victim of these horrific crimes, which is why the Met have increased the numbers of arrests of vile perpetrators and are also now reassessing historic cases of child sexual exploitation in London,&#8221; they said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The spokesperson added that the mayor had consistently pressed the Met to increase arrests and reassess historic cases of child sexual exploitation in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said: &#8220;Since 2022, we have significantly improved how we identify and investigate group-based offending &#8211; including training for 11,000 frontline officers and the expansion of our child exploitation teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the last year, this has seen us solve three times more cases of child sexual exploitation \u2013 representing 134 more suspects charged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our commitment to safeguarding all victims of such terrible offences and bringing those responsible to justice is absolute.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mayor&#8217;s spokesperson said that the Met would &#8220;leave no stone unturned&#8221; in investigating child sexual exploitation. &#8220;Sadiq&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-229379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}