Rotherham: The allegations of police misconduct

More than 1,400 children have now been identified as sexual abuse victims in Rotherham over a 16-year period.

Earlier this year, a report by Professor Alexis Jay was published which said senior police and council officials must have known what was happening to them but failed to act.

Here are the claims that could lead to misconduct allegations of 10 South Yorkshire Police officers over their handling of the case:

• Three officers are accused of "failing to progress" a report from a 14-year-old girl that she had been raped.

• At least one of the officers is accused of losing evidence in relation to a 2003 report that a victim had been raped on four occasions.

• One officer is alleged to have argued the category of sexual abuse against one victim should be downgraded because "the child had been 100% consensual in every incident".

• Two officers face allegations they failed to adequately investigate naked images of a young girl and possible evidence of group offending.

• Two officers allegedly failed to adequately investigate an incident in which a girl was found drunk in the back of a car and a suspect had indecent images of her on his mobile phone.

• One officer is accused of failing to take any action in response to information provided to police about abuse in Rotherham in 2001 and two commissioned reports on sexual exploitation in 2003 and 2006.