An inspection by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) found the force did not always do enough to identify and apprehend the suspects of child abuse, or assess the risk they pose to other children vulnerable to CSE.
The report is the first in of a series into how police perform on child protection, and comes just days after police and children's services in Rotherham were heavily criticised for failing to properly tackle CSE in the Yorkshire town over many years.
It found that in two cases that were assessed, suspects of child abuse were not pursued because of "reluctance of the child to support a prosecution".
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