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Unbelievable: No record of Jimmy Savile sex abuse claims held by police force

Jimmy Savile - (C) 2009, Roger Moody, all rights reserved

But senior officer admits he was aware of scores of complaints about the disgraced BBC star

Jimmy Savile – (C) 2009, Roger Moody, all rights reserved

Police where Jimmy Savile lived had no record of any sex allegations made against him – despite a top cop admitting he was aware of scores of complaints about the star.

A Surrey Police report reveals the unnamed inspector from Leeds told officers investigating Savile in 2009 that he was aware of numerous sex abuse allegations against the DJ.

But the West Yorkshire force had no claims on their system, it adds.

Last night Savile’s victims and MPs demanded an investigation into the star’s alleged links to individuals within the force.

The police watchdog has refused a probe.

West Yorks Police have strenuously denied any wrongdoing.

It has also emerged that pervert Savile hosted a Friday Morning Club at his penthouse in Leeds, which included an inner circle of serving or former police officers.

The report reveals how the officer – named only as “Inspector 5” – told Surrey police he was the Force Incident Manager.

It says: “He made references to the fact that he was known personally to Savile and he gets many of these complaints.”

But it goes on to add that the West Yorkshire force had no such claims on their systems.

The only records they had on Savile was as victim, when his spectacles were stolen in November 2007.

The report, by Dept Supt Jon Savell, also described the vile star’s interview under caution in 2009.

It said: “He said he has contacts within the police and whenever he gets letters alleging he has done something wrong he gives them to contacts who ‘get rid’ of them.”

It appears Savile enjoyed a cosy relationship with certain individuals within the police through the club he hosted for male friends in Roundhay Park.

Regulars at the get togethers – which met for almost 20 years – included up to nine serving or ex-policemen.

Among the members were a retired West Yorkshire police inspector and another officer, who is still serving.

Victims and MPs hit out at the Independent Police Complaints Commission last night after the watchdog said it would not be looking into any links Savile might have had with officers.

Simon Danczuk, the Labour MP for Rochdale, said: “I find it incredible that the IPCC is not investigating this. It appears that potential victims were trying to blow the lid on Savile’s abuse.”

One victim said: “I want this to be investigated. I find it extraordinary that he was telling police that another force was aware of more allegations against him and it wasn’t followed up.”

Savile was questioned under caution after Surrey police received an allegation in 2007 that he had sexually assaulted a teenage girl at Duncroft Approved School for Girls in the late 1970s.

Claims that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl outside Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1973 and asked a girl aged about 17, again at Duncroft, to perform a sex act in the 1970s also surfaced.

Prosecutors decided in 2009 that no case could be brought because the alleged victims would not support action.

But in another report it was found that Surrey police did not say that other complaints had been made.

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