To our reporter who was at that news conference. This is a damning report. Police letting children at the mercy of grooming gangs in rochdale . Yes, i mean extremely difficult reading is a member of the public, and extremely damning for the authorities, both rochdale Borough Council and greater manchester police. A a litany of failings pointed out in its report. It talked about how police investigations were sometimes cut short, were under resourced. Reallyjust a failure from top to bottom. There are concerns that were raised as early as 2005 by a sexual Health Clinic in rochdale about the sexual activity of some young girls in the town. In 2007, they raised concerns about a gang of men of pakistani and afghan