Police data shows

Police received hundreds of child sexual abuse reports at High Street Hotel Chen, data specially shared with BBC News Show.

Out of 504 crimes recorded in hotels in 2023, 92% (464) included physical contact with a child, while 40% (203) was recorded as rape.

Statistics provided by the National Police Chief Council (NPCC) show that where specific hotels were recorded, they were budget chain hotels.

In 2023 in England and Wales, in less than 1% of the total number of sexual offenses recorded against children. However, the police say the crime is being reported and the actual figures are likely to be more.

The NPCC says that some imaginative some of the most serious crimes are now committed in hotels, and the police force is “working with the hotel to raise awareness about child sexual abuse and increase awareness”.

The victim of a woman of child sexual misconduct – often taken to hotels by her addicts – told the BBC that the data is uncertain.

“You can put one Do not trouble Sign on the door and then they can do whatever they want, she can do what is going on, “she says.

“I can’t even live in a hotel, without thinking about what happened to me.”

The trade body UK hospitality, which represents more than 130,000 places, states that it is “doubled to deal with this disgusting crime”.

The NPCC says that where specific hotels were recorded by the police, they were in many major cities and cities, which had easy for criminals to meet victims with transport links such as train stations and motorways.

Police chiefs said that many budget hotels also have self-service kiosks instead of manned reception desk, allowing criminals to check in with young people without any question.

Phil Ashford says from NPCC Child Sexual Exlicitation Taskforce, “Once you fall behind the bedroom door of that hotel, there is a degree of privacy, which criminals often get not found anywhere else,” Phil Ashford says NPCC Child Sexual Exclusion Task Force.

“We are talking about some of the most serious contacts that are imaginative – children rape and severe sexual abuse.”

Can be criminal:

• Emphasis on cash payment

• Become a mit -speaking to provide any ID

• Especially request a separate room

• Especially request a double room

• Explain that there is no family relationship between the pair, if asked

The child can be:

• Unhappy and panic

• Continuous postponement of adult to answer on your behalf

• Failed to attach

• Do not show any identity

Source: operation

Sergeant Ian Haslden, from the Greater Manchester Police, operates, during which the officers pretend to be an addict and travel to a hotel with a child working as a victim. They then try to book a room showing signs of suspicious behavior.

“We will rather be safe from sorry, because it is a very serious crime and we don’t want them to worry about making incorrect calls,” they say.

“If the hotel suspects that the gold standard is to call the police to call,” he says.

Although recent data suggests that most of the incidents occur in cheap hotels, they say that child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) crimes can occur anywhere.

“It happens in luxury hotels and in low budget chains – it would be wrong to assume that it is only running in one part of the market – it is happening everywhere.”

The latest data suggests that 26% of the victims in 504 were reported by the age of 15, 18% were 16 years of age, and 17% were 17 years of age. Almost all suspects (92%) were men, and the average age of suspects was 28. The victims were mainly women (84%).

NPCC says that the victims of misconduct in hotels are older than all CSAE crimes.

Just 4% (21) of the reported offenses were identified as group -based, where two or more suspects were recorded. But the victims have told the BBC, even though criminals often change alone, they can belong to a groom’s gang where children are swapped between abuses.

Police chiefs calculated data by identifying keywords like “Hotel” amidst 115,489 CSAE offenses recorded in 2023.

“We are working closely with the house office and the police to support the operation makefe with the BBC, the chief executive of the UK Hospitality. What are the signs, how to spot them, if you think an event is happening and what to apply to the hotel to measure the hotel. “