Overview

• The Tackling Organised Exploitation programme’s AI apps will be rolled out to every police force in England and Wales to automate evidence analysis and foreign-language translation.
• Early trials in 13 forces have already saved officers over £20 million and cut 16,000 investigation hours by mapping digital data and suspect networks.
• Operation Beaconport, led by the National Crime Agency, has commenced a cold-case review of upwards of 1,200 closed child sexual exploitation files.
• The Home Secretary has ordered all forces to collect offenders’ ethnicity data, addressing long-standing gaps identified in Baroness Casey’s June audit.
• A statutory national inquiry into child sexual exploitation has been launched, with detailed terms of reference due in the coming weeks.