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47	47	While comprehensive nationwide statistics are lacking (due to years of poor data recording), several reports and local investigations have provided numeric breakdowns of offender ethnicity in grooming gang cases. Below are examples illustrating the ethnic composition of grooming gang perpetrators in different contexts:
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49		-**West Midlands Police (Operation “Protection” report, 2010):** An internal **problem profile** in March 2010 identified 75 suspects involved in group child sexual exploitation in the West Midlands. Of those 75 suspects, **79% were Asian**, 12% were White, and 5% were African-Caribbean. Furthermore, //“62% of Asian suspects are of Pakistani origin”//, meaning **about half of all suspects (37 of 75) were Pakistani-heritage males**. The report also noted 139 potential victims (78% of whom were white girls) that had been identified by that time. This confidential profile was not released publicly in 2010 – police feared the //“predominant offender profile of Pakistani Muslim males… combined with [white female victims] has the potential to cause significant community tensions.”// The data, obtained later via FOI, now stands as concrete evidence of what officers knew: in that region, the overwhelming majority of known grooming gang perpetrators were of South Asian (especially Pakistani) background. {{footnote}} https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/child-sexual-exploitation-force-west-9151006{{/footnote}}
	49	+**West Midlands Police (Operation “Protection” report, 2010):** An internal **problem profile** in March 2010 identified 75 suspects involved in group child sexual exploitation in the West Midlands. Of those 75 suspects, **79% were Asian**, 12% were White, and 5% were African-Caribbean. Furthermore, //“62% of Asian suspects are of Pakistani origin”//, meaning **about half of all suspects (37 of 75) were Pakistani-heritage males**. The report also noted 139 potential victims (78% of whom were white girls) that had been identified by that time. This confidential profile was not released publicly in 2010 – police feared the //“predominant offender profile of Pakistani Muslim males… combined with [white female victims] has the potential to cause significant community tensions.”// The data, obtained later via FOI, now stands as concrete evidence of what officers knew: in that region, the overwhelming majority of known grooming gang perpetrators were of South Asian (especially Pakistani) background. {{footnote}} https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/child-sexual-exploitation-force-west-9151006{{/footnote}} {{footnote}} https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-32547630{{/footnote}}
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51	51	**Greater Manchester Police (GMP Grooming Investigations, 2022–2025):** As part of the 2025 Casey audit, GMP supplied recent data covering 35 group CSE operations in Greater Manchester (Jan 2022–May 2025). Among **243 identified suspects** in those investigations, the ethnic breakdown was **54% Asian, 35% White, 3% Black, and 8% “Other”**. In absolute numbers, that equates to approximately 131 Asian suspects, 85 White suspects, 7 Black suspects, and 20 of other ethnicities. Thus, just over half of the suspects were of Asian heritage, confirming a disproportionate representation relative to the local population. GMP also provided data on the victims in these cases: of **317 known victims**, the vast majority (approximately 298, or 94%) were female, and about 79% of all victims were White (with smaller numbers of Asian, Black, and Mixed ethnicity victims). For instance, GMP recorded 267 female victims – of whom 250 were White (≈94%), 8 Asian, 5 Black, 4 “Other” – and 50 male victims (48 White, 1 Asian, 1 Black). This aligns with the pattern observed in most prior cases: victims are predominantly young white girls, while suspects in group grooming tend more often to be men of minority (especially South Asian) backgrounds, at least in the areas studied.
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