FOI 119/25 Officers Assigned to Child sexual exploitation
Enquiry Reference: 119- 25
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response. Please accept our apologies for the late reply.
1, Number of officers currently serving within your force
- The number of police officers currently working for Cleveland Police is 1517.
2, Number of officers assigned or posted to teams which primarily (or exclusively) deal with child criminal exploitation (such as county lines).
3, Number of officers assigned or posted to teams which primarily (or exclusively) deal with child sexual exploitation.
4, Number of officers assigned or posted to teams which primarily (or exclusively) deal with sex trafficking (forced prostitution).
Answer
Having made enquiries within the Force for the above questions please see the below response.
Complex Exploitation Team currently have 20 team members. This includes 4 PCs delegated to Harm outside the Home team, there are 3 Detective Sergeants and 1 Detective Inspector.
This is a snapshot in time, with no indication of future staffing numbers, and doesn’t represent the overall number of officers who are capable of dealing with these types of crime should the need arise. Which would be CID, Drugs Unit, POLIT, MOSOVO, CAVA, Historical Investigations Unit. Depending on the circumstances of the investigation it would go to the correct team. We don’t have one team which deals purely with all CCE/CSE/sex trafficking. CET only deal with complex exploitation around those three areas.
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Information Rights Decision Maker