Hundreds of child abuse reports made to Derbyshire police

POLICE have dealt with hundreds of child abuse reports in Derbyshire so far this year.

The force's public protection unit has had 2,470 referrals of alleged sexual or physical abuse of children since January.

More than 50% of them were alleged to have happened in Derby.

Last year, the force dealt with 172 reports of child sexual exploitation.

Yesterday, the NSPCC reported how Derbyshire police had made 102 arrests last year involving indecent images of children.

"In the future or at anytime, if anything happens to me, it's them"

"In the future or at anytime, if anything happens to me, it's them," she tells an officer at the station - the first of five occasions she approached the police for help.

Three months later, Banaz was killed in her family home in a suburb of the capital. The 20-year-old was raped, stamped on and eventually garrotted with a shoelace in an attack lasting more than two hours."