"An initial data search identified around 9,000 historic cases that might fall under the broad national criteria, but after reviewing 2,200 of them only about 1,200 remained in scope, Sir Mark Rowley told the London Assembly. The commissioner warned against using "grooming gangs" as a catch-all term because offending includes abuse within families, in institutions, between peers and online. He said the ethnicities of suspects varied and are "reflective of the diversity we see in the city"."
"Sir Mark said a data search had initially identified about 9,000 historic cases in London that might fall under a national definition of group-based sexual offending, which includes any case with two or more suspects and at least one victim. He also said that figure had been widely misinterpreted as 9,000 grooming gang cases and had led to "unbalanced reporting"."
The Metropolitan Police is investigating "tens" of group-based child sexual abuse cases described as grooming gangs. An initial data search flagged about 9,000 historic cases that might meet a broad national definition of group-based sexual offending; after reviewing 2,200 cases about 1,200 remained in scope. The force expects maybe 2,000–3,000 cases to be considered for potential reinvestigation as assessments continue. The national definition includes any case with two or more suspects and at least one victim and covers intra-familial offending, institutional abuse, peer-on-peer incidents and online exploitation. Suspect ethnicities vary and reflect the city's diversity.
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