POLICE OPERATIONS: A-Z

POLICE OPERATIONS

A-Z LIST

Some are unnamed or names are redacted – taken from the list obtained by Cathy Fox (see link at the bottom of this post.)

• OP ALAMO: Norfolk Police: Investigation into Sheringham Court School during 1970s.
• OP ALTUS: Bedfordshire Police: 2015 Investigation into child sexual abuse.
• OP ASTER: IPCC: Investigation into police officers handling of Ian Watkins (LostProphets) allegations.
• OP ATHABASCA: Metropolitan Police – Elm Guest House
• OP AWAKEN: Lancashire Police: Ongoing –  Child sexual exploitation: Blackpool, Fylde, Lancaster, Morecombe & Wyre.
• OP BALD EAGLE: Metropolitan Police investigation into an alleged prostitution ring in Mayfair, 1988.
• OP BARZINI: West Midlands Police: Investigation into the abuse of two boys in 2009-2010.
• OP BIXLEY: Allegations of assault by Ben Fellowes against Kenneth Clarke MP.
• OP BRANCASTER: 2014 – Spin off from Operation Fernbridge.  Investigated abuse by Charles Napier.
• OP BROOKE: Avon & Somerset Police: Investigation in to abuse by men within the Bristol area.
• OP BULLFINCH: Oxfordshire & Thames Valley Police: 2015 – Investigation in to child sexual exploitation by a gang of men in Oxford.
• OP CARE: Merseyside Police: 1999-2003 – Investigated allegations of abuse within homes in Merseyside
• OP CATHEDRAL: British National Crime Squad: 1998-2001 – ‘The Wonderland Club’ online paedophile ring.
• OP CAVEGREEN: Metropolitan Police  – Spin off from Op Fairbank.
• OP CAYACOS: Metropolitan Police – Paedophile Information Exchange, Peter Righton, Charles Napier & Richard Alston paedophile ring.
• OP CHARWELL: Northumbria Police: Investigation into historic cleric abuse.
• OP CIRCUS: Metropolitan Police: 1986 – Paedophile rings operating in Piccadilly Circus.
• OP CLARENCE: West Mercia Police & Scotland Yard: 1992 – Investigation in to paedophiles within schools resulting from exposure of a paedophile ring involving Peter Righton.
• OP CLEMENTINE: 1990 – Investigation in to allegations of ritual abuse centered on a council estate in Merseyside.
• OP CLIFF: Bedfordshire Police: Investigation into historical familial abuse.
• OP CLIFTON: Greater Manchester Police: Investigation into child sexual exploitation cover up at Knowle View children’s home.
• OP CLOVER: South Yorkshire Police: 2013-2013 – Child Sexual Exploitation within Rotherham by a gang of males.
• OP CONCEAL: North Yorkshire Police: Operation to identify and manage incidents of child sexual exploitation.
• OP CONIFER: Wiltshire Police: 2015 Edward Heath child abuse allegations.
• OP COTSWOLD: Police Scotland: 2011-2013 – Investigation in to child sexual exploitation in Glasgow involving a male gang.
• OP DANZIN: Northumbria Police: Investigation into historic institutional abuse.
• OP DASH: Police Scotland: 2013 – Spin off from Op Cotswold.  Investigation in to child sexual exploitation in the Strathclyde area by male gang.
• OP DATA: Sussex Police: Investigation based in Crawley into six individuals and allegations into child sexual abuse.
• OP DAYBREAK: Nottinghamshire Police: Ongoing – Investigation in to allegations of abuse at Beechwood House.
• OP DETER: Lancashire Police: Ongoing – Child Sexual exploitation: Preston, Chorley, South Ribble & West Lancs.
• OP DOUBLET: Greater Manchester Police: Followed on from the child sexual exploitation cases in Rochdale.
• OP ENCOMPASS: Northumbria Police: Ongoing – Project run in conjunction with schools to support children affected by domestic abuse.
• OP ENGAGE: Lancashire Police: Ongoing – Child sexual exploitation: Blackburn, Darwen, Hyndburn, Ribble Valley, Pendle & Rossendale.
• OP FAIRBANK: Metropolitan Police: 2012-2014 – Investigation in to allegations of abuse against government figures and led on to smaller investigations.
• OP FERNBRIDGE: Metropolitan Police: 2013-2015 – Grafton Close Childrens’ Home. (Great Manchester Police were also involved regarding Cyril Smith)
• OP FRAMEWORK: Metropolitan Police: 1992 – Stemmed from investigation in to Frederick Chambers and the filming of abuse.  Led on to Warwick Spinks, trafficking and Amsterdam.
• OP GARFORD: Suffolk Police – Investigating allegations of abuse at Kesgrave Hall School 1970-1990.
• OP HAIRANA: Bedfordshire Police: 2013 Investigation into allegations of abuse in a childrens home.
• OP HALTER: Durham Police: 2003: Investigation in to allegations of abuse in Medomsley Detention Centre and the perpetrator, Neville Husband.
• OP HEDGEROW: Metropolitan Police: 1986-1989 – Investigation in to a paedophile ring including Colin Peters, barrister.
• OP HELIODOR: Greater Manchester Police: Part of Project Phoenix, a multi-agency campaign tackling CSE in the Greater Manchester area.
• OP HERALD: Bedfordshire Police: 2015 Investigation into familial serious sexual abuse.
• OP HIBISCUS: North Yorkshire Police: Ongoing – Child sexual abuse by Peter Jaconelli & Jimmy Savile following BBC’s Inside Out programme, 2014.
• OP HILLCOTE: Bedfordshire Police: 2015 Child sexual exploitation investigation.
• OP HYDRANT: National Police Crime Commissioners: Ongoing – ‘non-recent’ child sexual abuse overarching all others.
• OP ITHICA: Bedfordshire Police: 2015 Investigation into a sexual offence on a child.
• OP JAGUAR: Greater Manchester Police: Investigation into Knowl View Residential School, including Cyril Smith MP.
• OP JARRA: National Crime Agency/PSNI: Arrest of 25 people in Northern Ireland on suspicion of accessing onling images of child abuse.
• OP JUPITER: Northumbria Police: Offshoot of Sanctuary – sexual offences based south of the Tyne.
• OP KALPASI: Metropolitan Police: Allegations into the drugging and abuse at the Southbank International school by a teacher who committed suicide following allegations in South America. FBI involvement.
• OP KELLERABBEY: West Yorkshire Police: Investigation in to the sexual abuse of two girls involving 15 defendants.
• OP KISO: Greater Manchester Police: Investigation into child sexual exploitation offences by teachers connected to prestigious music schools.
• OP LIFEBOAT: Northants Police: Investigation into allegations of sexual abuse within Jesus Army.
• OP LINUS: Bedfordshire Police: 2015 Investigation into historic sexual offence.
• OP LYTTON: Greater Manchester Police: Investigation into allegations of abuse of a single complainant by multiple offenders linked to Rochdale.
• OP MAKESAFE: Metropolitan Police: Ongoing – Campaign in to raising awareness of child sexual exploitation within the capital.
• OP MALSWICK: Metropolitan Police: Ongoing – Investigation in to the disappearance of Martin Allen in 1979.
• OP MARMIOM: Hampshire Constabulary: Investigation into allegations of child sexual exploitation involving 28 different investigations following the Rotherham trials.
• OP MIDDLETON: Metropolitan Police: 1998-2003 – Investigation in to abuse in Lambeth care homes.
• OP MIDLAND: Scotland Yard: 2014-2016 – Investigation in to abuse and murder by VIP’s at Dolphin Square.
• OP MILAN: Greater Manchester Police: Investigation into sexual and physical abuse by staff at Woodend Assessment Centre.
• OP MONROE: South Yorkshire Police: Investigation into child sexual exploitation in Sheffield.
• OP OAK: West Midlands Police: Investigation into the abuse of boys under 16 between 1992-2003.
• OP ORCHID: Investigation set up following information provided to police via a prisoner taking notes of conversations by Sidney Cooke, Leslie Bailey & Robert Oliver in 1986.
• OP ORE: 1999 – Set off by an American investigation (Operation Avalanche) in to online child abuse which uncovered a world wide web of users of the ‘Landslide’ database.
• OP PALLIAL: Investigation in to abuse in North Wales childrens’ homes.
• OP PALOMINO: Norfolk Police: Investigation in to historic abuse by two men in Norwich.
• OP PAPER: Sussex Police: unknown
• OP PARAMOUNT: Norfolk Police: unknown
• OP PATIKI: Hertfordshire Police: 2015 Investigation into the possession of indecent images of children.
• OP PIPELINE: Sussex Police: Investigation into child sexual exploitation of young girls within the Brighton and Hove area.
• OP PIPER: Scotland Yard: 1992 – Investigation to curb ‘child prostitution’ in London’s West End.
• OP QUARTZ: Gwent Police: Operation to tackle child sexual exploitation.
• OP RACECOURSE: Suffolk Police: Investigation into St George’s boarding school during late 1970s-1980s.
• OP RAVINE: Surrey Police: Investigation into child sexual abuse at the Walton Hop disco.
• OP RECTANGLE: States of Jersey Police: 2007 – Investigation in to allegations of abuse within Haut de la Garenne care home.
• OP RICE: Thames Valley Police: Investigation into allegations of child sexual exploitation between 1996 and 2004.
• OP RIDGEWOOD: Hampshire Police – Investigation in to the disappearance of Damien Nettles.
• OP ROSE: Northumbria Police: 1997 – Investigation in to abuse in 61 children’s homes in Northumberland, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland.
• OP ROUTEMASTER: Instigated following a customs seizure of abuse videos from Richard Mercer and David Barry, leading to Amsterdam and Beat Meier.
• OP RUFFLE: Staffordshire Police: Ongoing – Investigation in to allegations of a paedophile ring centred around Cannock Chase.
• OP SAFENET: Staffordshire Police: Operation into the identification and management of child sexual exploitation.
• OP SALTNEY: Bedfordshire Police: 2015 Investigation into historic sexual offences against children.
• OP SANCTUARY: Northumbria Police: Ongoing – Investigation in to allegations of a series of child sexual exploitation offences.  Broken down into three strands: Shelter, Shield and Jupiter.
• OP SANDHURST: Sussex Police: Investigation based in Brighton of the abuse of one female by one offender.
• OP SEABROOK: Durham Police: Ongoing – Investigation in to allegation of abuse at Medomsley Detention Centre.
• OP SEPARA: Spin off from Operation Fairbank and Brancaster. Investigation in to abuse by Charles Napier (separate victim).
• OP SHELTER: Northumbria Police: Offshoot of Sanctuary.  Allegations of abuse ‘parties’ within the west end of Newcastle.
• OP SHIELD: Northumbria Police: Offshoot of Sanctuary: Allegations of abuse committed by taxi drivers.
• OP STAPLE: Sussex Police: Investigation involving a number of complainants from West Sussex.
• OP STOVEWOOD: National Crime Agency: Investigation into the sexual exploitation of young girls in Rotherham.
• OP STRANGER: Investigation set up to investigate the murders of Jason Swift and Barry Lewis in 1986.
• OP TATTINGSTONE: Investigation into the murder of Bernard Oliver, found in Suffolk in 1965.
• OP TRAWLER: Metropolitan Police – Emerged from Operation Care in Merseyside, in connection to a social worker in Lambeth.
• OP TRINITY: Metropolitan Police – Investigation in to wide-spread abuse throughout Lambeth care homes.
• OP TWEED: Cumbria Constabulary – Investigation into allegations of abuse at Underley Hall School in Kirkby Lonsdale and others in the Cumbria area.
• OP VOICER: National Crime Agency: Investigation and conviction of seven defendants for child sexual exploitation.
• OP WHISTLE: States of Jersey Police – Historical cases of abuse in Jersey.
• OP WHITERIVER: Greater Manchester Police: Investigation into allegations of abuse by staff at Rosehill and Broome House children’s homes.
• OP WHITTINGTON: Metropolitan Police: 1990 – Investigation in to runaway children at Kings Cross.
• OP WINTER KEY: Metropolitan Police – response to iiCSA inquiry.
• OP WINTHORPE: Metropolitan Police: Ongoing – Investigation in to allegations of abuse at St Paul’s School, Barnes and Windsor Grammar School, Berkshire involving 19 suspects over 45 years.
• OP XERES: Nottinghamshire Police: Ongoing – Investigation in to allegations of abuse within different institutions in Nottingham.
• OP YEWTREE: Investigation in to Jimmy Savile and others. Split in to three strands.
• UNNAMED: Avon & Somerset Police: Investigation into allegations of child sexual exploitation within Bristol against children aged between 12 and 15-years old.
• UNNAMED: Avon & Somerset Police: Investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse of seven girls from Bath within the Bristol area between 2009 and 2012.  Ten men involved – three of which were convicted as part of Op Brooke.
• UNNAMED: Bedfordshire Police: Investigation into allegations of abuse at St Francis Catholic Boys’ Home in Shefford, Beds.
• UNNAMED: Cambridgeshire Police: Proactive intelligence led operation to raise awareness of child sexual exploitation victims, offenders and locations.
• UNNAMED: Derbyshire Police: Investigation into allegations of child abuse in the West Midlands and Chesterfield.
• UNNAMED: Greater Manchester Police: Investigation into allegations of child sexual exploitation of a girl in Greater Manchester.
• UNNAMED: Greater Manchester Police: Investigation into allegations of the sexual exploitation of a 15-year old girl by ten men in Bolton.
• UNNAMED: Greater Manchester Police: Part of the Doublet operation into allegations of child sexual exploitation between 2005 and 2007.
• UNNAMED: IPCC & others: Investigation into allegations that Wiltshire Police failed to investigate allegations of abuse by Edward Heath made during the nineties.
• UNNAMED: Lancashire Police: Investigation into the sexual exploitation of children across Lancashire, including the possession of indecent images of children.
• UNNAMED: Leicestershire Police: Investigation into Greville Janner and allegations spanning from the 1960s to the 1980s.  Ceased when Janner’s death.
• UNNAMED: Metropolitan Police: Investigation into an organised crime network supplying drugs and the sexual exploitation of girls and women.
• UNNAMED: Metropolitan Police: Investigation into allegations of child sexual exploitation within Tower Hamlets care homes – gang related.
• UNNAMED: Northumbria Police: Investigation into sexual exploitation in Sunderland.
• UNNAMED: Northumbria Police: Investigation into allegations of vulnerable females sexually exploited at ‘parties.’
• UNNAMED: Northumbria Police: Investigation into the sexual exploitatio of a boy from the age of 12 to 14 through Grindr and Hornet social networking apps.
• UNNAMED: Northumbria Police: Investigation into sexual offences against vulnerable persons by taxi drivers.
• UNNAMED: South Yorkshire Police: Investigation into allegations of abuse by singer, Cliff Richard.
• UNNAMED: South Yorkshire Police: Investigation into child sexual exploitation of two girls under the age of 16 between 1999 and 2001 in Rotherham.
• UNNAMED: South Yorkshire Police: Investigation into allegations of child sexual exploitation following SYP scheme to train hotel staff in how to spot the warning signs of sexual abuse.
• UNNAMED: Staffordshire Police: Investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse and trafficking of two victims by multiple perpetrators.  20 people were on remand and 22 had been charged with a variety of offences.
• UNNAMED: Sussex Police: Investigation into allegations against DJ, Neil Fox, who was cleared of all charges.
• UNNAMED: Thames Valley Police: Investigation into allegations of sexual exploitation and trafficking within Oxford and the Athena Guest House in Cowley Road.
• UNNAMED: Thames Valley Police: Investigation into allegations of child sexual exploitation against girls aged between 1999 and 2007.
• UNNAMED: West Midlands Police: Investigation into allegations of abuse of two teenage boys – one from Leicester and one from Coventry – between 2009 and 2010, including trafficking, the making of indecent images and drug possession.
• UNNAMED: West Yorkshire Police: Investigation into allegations of abuse of a girl from the age of 12 to 16-years old by men mainly from Halifax, Bradford and Huddersfield.
• *REDACTED*: National Crime Agency: Investigation into Patrick Rock, former adviser to David Cameron at 10 Downing Street who was subsequently found guilty of having indecent images of children.
• *REDACTED*: National Crime Agency/Metropolitan Police: Investigation into Peter William Allott – Deputy headmaster of St Benedict’s School, Ealing – for using video conferencing facilities to make category A indecent images of children alongside others.

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REFERENCE:

• BUFVC: Operation Piper
• Op Pallial
• Cathy Fox FOI blog post