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    This revives the ploy used`allegedly` by the good and great.....``I play golf with the Chief Constable`` and the matter

    gets kicked into the long grass.

    Jimmy Savile police 'reluctant to investigate because of celebrity status'

    Watchdog highlights failures in information sharing between forces and reveals DJ could have been stopped in 1963.

    The HMIC's report warned that police officers could fail to prevent a Jimmy Savile-like scandal happening again.

    Jimmy Savile's celebrity status contributed to the police's failure to prevent him sexually abusing hundreds of young people over

    five decades when they could have stopped him in the 1960s, the compiler of a highly critical report by Her Majesty's

    Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) has said.

    The watchdog's inquiry into the police's handling of Savile revealed that the disgraced DJ, who died in October 2011, could have

    been stopped as early as 1964 but police mishandled evidence and dismissed victims.

    Drusilla Sharpling, from HMIC, said police appeared to be reluctant to investigate Savile because of his high public profile.

    "It is clear that because of several Savile's celebrity status and the power, maybe people do look for that extra piece of

    evidence, behaving with an extra sense of caution, because of the power he wielded," she told BBC Radio 4's Today

    programme on Tuesday.

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