Detective superintendent Chris Bourlet, the Metropolitan Police's deputy head of child protection, said police involvement on the bodies could be affected by tension over where responsibility for child protection rests.
He told a conference last week that it had not yet been decided in London whether police representatives should come from the centralised child protection team or the local borough forces, adding that it would be a difficult issue for many forces to grapple with.
"The preferred option is that people on safeguarding boards should be senior enough to commit resources and decide policy," he told Children Now. "But there are only four chief superintendents and three superintendents in the Met's child protection command, so going to all 32 London boroughs would make it difficult to do on a regular basis."
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