jan 1, 2014 - Operation Linden was launched by the Independent Office for Police Conduct

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The Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal consists of the organised child sexual abuse that occurred in the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Northern England from the late 1980s until 2013 and the failure of local authorities to act on reports of the abuse throughout most of that period.

Operation Linden was launched in 2014 by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) to examine how South Yorkshire Police had responded to complaints of child sexual abuse, after publication of the Jay Report.
It undertook 91 investigations between 2014 and 2018 covering 265 separate allegations made by 51 complainants, its final investigation took place in 2020.

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