article_snippet: Over 30 years, officers from Scotland Yard are said to have also protected entertainers, actor, and priest by shutting down inquiries.
article_snippet: Police allegedly stopped investing a child sex ring based in Dolphin Square in Westmister, pictured .
article_snippet: Criminal proceedings were being prepared, but two months later an officer was called in by a senior Metropolitan Police officer and told to drop the case, the case is alleged.
article_snippet: Watchdog said all the allegations relate to 'suppressing evidence, hindering or halting investigations' and the 'covering up the offences because of the involvement of members of parliament and police officers'.
article_snippet: When the probe was announced earlier this month, commentators said the probe could be the biggest investigation into police corruption since the 1970s.
article_snippet: When the investigation into the alleged corrupt actions of its officers was launched
article_snippet: It has also been claimed officers failed to end sex parties at the now notorious Dolphin Square complex, in Pimlico, central London, following the intervention of ‘prominent people’.
article_snippet: Police were accused of hushing-up allegations about disgraced ex-Top Of The Pops  presenter Jimmy Savile .
highlights_snippet: Entertainers, actors and priests are now thought to have been protected by corrupt police officers .
  