Jim Gamble, who resigned as chief executive of Ceop in 2010 due to government plans to incorporate it within the National Crime Agency (NCA), told CYP Now he is “not surprised” by claims that there were not enough staff at the organisation for it to fully investigate all the information it received.
Gamble's concerns follow the conviction of Myles Bradbury, a paediatric consultant at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, who was yesterday sentenced to 22 years in prison for abusing young cancer patients in his care between 2009 and 2013.
Bradbury's details had been passed to Ceop – along with those of 700 other people who had bought indecent images online – in July 2012 by Canadian authorities as part of Operation Spade.
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