1,200 ARRESTED IN BRITISH PEDOPHILE RAIDS

PFMLIT CARE WORKERS, DOCTORS, General, INTERNATIONAL, INTERNET OFFENDER CASES, LAW ENFORCEMENT, SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS IN POSITIONS OF TRUST, UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED KINGDOM

More than 1,200 teachers, doctors, care workers and policemen have been arrested across theUnited Kingdom in raids against paedophiles who had used an American internet service. Fortychildren have been taken into care because they have been abused or there are fears that they mightbe at risk from parents or professional workers. The extent of Operation Ore's investigations,code-named Operation Ore, was explained yesterday as 250 detectives from Scotland Yard launched thebiggest series of raids in the inquiry at addresses across London.