Britain’s National Crime Agency said this week that it will review over a thousand cases allegedly involving grooming gangs that, in at least some instances, appear to have been dropped as a result of “human error” by police or prosecutors.

The NCA — Britain’s equivalent of the American FBI — said that Operation Beaconport will focus on “putting victims and survivors at the heart of the criminal justice process” by re-examining potential grooming gang investigations in England and Wales that were “incorrectly closed with no further action taken.”

The law enforcement agency said that it has so far identified 1,273 cases of potential grooming gang crimes that were either dropped by police forces or prosecutors, including 236 cases involving allegations of rape. The NCA stated that the id

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