UK: IPCC probes Panorama source over leaking of CSA survivors’ IDs

Scotland Yard has passed to Britain’s police watchdog its investigation into a detective suspected of leaking identities of complainants in abuse cases to BBC1’s Panorama.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) will itself carry out the investigation into the senior detective over Allegations that he passed to Panorama and newspapers confidential details of witnesses who made allegations to Scotland Yard of child sex abuse (CSA) by VIPs.

Communications seen by Exaro reveal that immediately after taking over the investigation the IPCC upgraded it from a disciplinary to a criminal case.  (more...)

IPCC probes Panorama source over leaking of CSA survivors’ IDs

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