The latest report into police failures involving so-called “grooming gangs” reveals that our policing or political leaders have learned no lessons. The report focused on 111 Rochdale cases between 2004 and 2013 and stated that evidence of the repeated rape of young girls was never investigated. Furthermore, it identified 96 men who are still considered a risk to children in Rochdale.

What is not addressed is the political policing that permits such terrible crimes to go unpunished. It is our firm belief that if groups of white men raped non-white girls, action would have been taken, and indeed our political leadership would have stepped in and tackled the problem.

Furthermore, police were, and still are, encouraged to apply the law along racial lines and to consider the political fallout of criminal punishment. This is an affront to justice.

The UK Independence Party Justice Spokesperson Anne Marie Waters said;

“The only way to deliver justice is to treat all people equally, regardless of skin colour or religious affiliation. The politicisation of policing must stop immediately, and we must face uncomfortable truths about whether multiculturalism is working or has left some of the most vulnerable people in our society without help or support because of the colour of their skin”.

The UK Independence Party calls for an end to colour-blind policing as the only route to true justice for all people who live in our country.

Anne Marie Waters

UK Independence Party Spokesman for- Justice, Equality and Disability,

Abuse and Exploitation