The police watchdog is investigating alleged corruption in the Metropolitan Police, including claims it covered up child sex offences because of the involvement of police officers and MPs.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating 14 referrals relating to child sex offences from the 1970s to the 2000s.
It said the claims were of "high-level corruption of the most serious nature".
The Met said it had voluntarily referred the allegations.
The investigation is to look at claims the police force suppressed evidence and hindered or halted investigations, the IPCC said.
'Grave concern'Sarah Green, the commission's deputy chairwoman, said: "Allegations of this nature are of grave concern and I would like to reassure people of our absolute commitment to ensuring that the investigations are thorough and robust."
Allegations being investigated as set out by the IPCC include:
- A potential cover-up linked to "failures to properly investigate child sex abuse offences in south London and further information about criminal allegations against a politician being dropped"
- A claim that an investigation into young men being targeted at the Dolphin Square flats in Pimlico, south-west London, was halted because "officers were too near prominent people"
- An allegation that a document from the Houses of Parliament was found at a paedophile's address linking "highly-prominent individuals", including MPs and senior police officers, to a paedophile ring but no further action was taken
- Alleged alteration of a child sex abuse victim's account to remove the name of a senior politician
- Alleged child sex abuse by a senior politician and a subsequent cover-up of the alleged crimes
- Claims that a surveillance operation of a child abuse ring was shut down due to "high-profile people being involved"
- An allegation that police officers sexually abused a boy and carried out surveillance on him
The IPCC will manage an investigation that was already being conducted by the Met Police's Directorate of Professional Standards into the alleged police corruption.
The force said in a statement: "The allegations emerged whilst officers were working on Operation Fairbank and relate to the period between 1970 and 2005.
"The MPS [Metropolitan Police] recognised the severity of the allegations, and the importance of understanding whether or not our officers had in the past acted inappropriately, and therefore voluntarily referred the 16 separate allegations to the IPCC.
"Ongoing investigations and recent convictions by officers from the Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command have shown that the MPS is fully committed to investigating non-recent allegations of sexual abuse."
The original allegations of child abuse are also still being investigated by the Met.
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