After
months of embarrassing revelations that the police had failed to
challenge dubious claims of child sexual abuse committed by prominent
Britons, the head of Scotland Yard announced on Thursday that the
authorities might no longer be encouraged to believe every complaint.
The
officer, Bernard Hogan-Howe, who is commissioner of the Metropolitan
Police, said a new review of police behavior, led by a former high court
judge, Richard Henriques, would be private and submitted to a current
larger, independent inquiry led by a New Zealand judge, Lowell Goddard ,
into how all institutions handled the issue of child sexual abuse.
