Greater Manchester Police chief apologises to rape victim over failures - BBC NewsA chief constable has apologised to a rape victim after his force failed to arrest the suspect she had identified.
The victim's mother described Greater Manchester Police (GMP) as "absolutely incompetent" over its failures to act.
She said her daughter had also suffered because four different detectives had led the investigation.
New GMP Chief Constable Stephen Watson admitted the victim, from Rochdale, had been let down by the investigation and said it "simply isn't good enough".
The Maggie Oliver Foundation, which helps victims of sexual violence, has told BBC Newsnight that it knows of at least 15 young women who have been turned away by GMP or put off reporting the crime by the force's response.
Mr Watson denied there was a "systemic failings at the very heart of our process" and said resources had been pumped into a new central Child Sexual Exploitation team.
GMP was
recently put in special measures[/size] after it failed to investigate 80,000 crimes in a 12-month period.