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The agency dubbed 'the British FBI' is to oversee all police probes into historic child sexual exploitation in Rotherham as part of a new investigation that could leave a Yorkshire force with a bill running into millions of pounds.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed today that it has started the first stage of its independent investigation into the abuse of some 1,400 vulnerable children in the South Yorkshire town between 1997 and 2013.
South Yorkshire chief constable David Crompton brought in the elite agency, created last year to tackle serious and organised crime, following the publication of the bombshell report by Alexis Jay in August.