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Who Signed Off Operation Hexagon?

Who Signed Off Operation Hexagon?

The documents that will expose the politicians and police involved in protecting the Pakistani rape gangs

Operation Hexagon was not an investigation into child sexual exploitation. It was a policing operation aimed at criminalising those who forced the scandal into the open.

Campaigners were contained and criminalised. Those complicit in the cover up were protected. The outcome was a type of state sponsored suppression that the Stasi would be proud of.

This is why the Freedom of Information request sent to Andy Burnham matters.

It seeks the documents that explain how an operation with this record was authorised, funded, and allowed to continue. It asks who signed it off, who was briefed, and who decided that criminalising campaigners was an acceptable use of police power.

Burnham cannot distance himself from this. He holds the powers exercised by a Police and Crime Commissioner. Oversight is not optional in that role.

  • If his office was briefed, there will be written records.
  • If money was approved, there will be budgets and submissions.
  • If concerns were raised about proportionality or public confidence, they will exist somewhere in the system.

Policing at this level does not run on informal chats. It runs on paperwork.

If those papers show awareness, Andy Burnham must explain why an operation producing no justice was permitted to continue while public speech was chilled. He must account for what intervention was made, if any, and why it failed.

If the papers show no awareness, that is not a defence. It exposes a void at the top of Gtr Manchester Police where a long-running operation of extreme sensitivity operated without political scrutiny. That failure belongs to the office charged with oversight.

Brand Burnham has built its public standing on confronting institutional wrongdoing. What he releases, what he withholds, and how hard he resists disclosure will determine whether that reputation survives contact with evidence.

This is not about compliance. It is about accountability. The record will decide.

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