...: qualitative interviews with more than 100 police officers and prosecutors; the creation of a quantitative data set, an anonymised, four-year sample of all sex offences (n = 366,346) recorded by five forces between January 2018 and December 2021; and two types of case reviews (312 in total) including...

... investigations are proving ineffective. The purpose of this study was to capture police officers’ perspective of police specialism while investigating RASSO. Design/methodology/approach A total of 82 semi-structured interviews were conducted. Data collection spanned across two years, from October 2021 until...