{"id":326559,"date":"2025-12-20T14:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T14:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/326559\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T14:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T14:11:07","slug":"seven-torquay-hotels-fail-child-exploitation-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/326559\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Torquay hotels fail child exploitation checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only one out of eight hotels questioned an older guest checking in with an underage child, an undercover police operation has found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers from the Torquay Neighbourhood Police Team, with support from Police Cadets, said they recently carried out an evening of action around child exploitation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was done as part of the national initiative Operation Makesafe, which is designed to &#8220;empower businesses and organisations to tackle child exploitation&#8221; and to &#8220;increase awareness and training of early warning signs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A plain-clothed officer and cadet attended eight Torquay hotels and asked to book a room for one night, asking specifically for a double bed, to pay in cash and not provide ID.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only one out of eight hotels questioned an older guest checking in with an underage child, an undercover&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-326559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326559","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=326559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}