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Ms Roper recently commissioned a review into allegations of child exploitation and child grooming made to Wiltshire Police over the past 10 years, to improve the force's responses.
Wiltshire Police has identified the following indicators that a young person may be being groomed:
- Are they being secretive about how they are spending their time?
- Do they have an older boyfriend or girlfriend?
- Do they have money or new things like clothes and mobile phones that they cannot or will not explain?
- Are they drinking or taking drugs?
- Are they spending more or less time than usual online or on their devices?
- Do they seem upset or withdrawn?
- Are they using sexual language you would not expect them to know?
- Are they spending more time away from home or going missing for periods of time?
