David Cameron's aide resigns over 'child abuse imagery'

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A close aide to prime ,inister David Cameron has resigned over allegations involving child abuse images.

Patrick Rock, who has been involved in government policy on internet porn filters, was arrested by detectives from the National Crime Agency (NCA) over a "potential offence relating to child abuse imagery", a Downing Street spokeswoman said.

The 62-year-old was arrested at his home on 13 February and officers were given access to all IT systems and offices at Number 10, she added.

In a statement, Downing Street said: "On the evening of February 12 Downing Street was first made aware of a potential offence relating to child abuse imagery.

"It was immediately referred to the National Crime Agency (CEOP). The prime ,inister was immediately informed and kept updated throughout. Patrick Rock was arrested at his home in the early hours of February 13, a few hours after Downing Street had reported the matter.

"Subsequently, we arranged for officers to come into Number 10 and have access to all IT systems and offices they considered relevant.


Patrick Rock. Image: Barcroft Media

Patrick Rock. Image: Barcroft Media

"This is an on-going investigation so it would not be appropriate to comment further, but the Prime Minister believes that child abuse imagery is abhorrent and that anyone involved with it should be properly dealt with under the law."

The spokeswoman confirmed Mr Rock - who was deputy head of Downing Street's policy unit - resigned on 12 February.

Downing Street confirmed Rock was one of the advisers involved in the government's policy on internet filters to protect against child abuse images online.

Leading search engine companies Google and Microsoft agreed in November to introduce changes that will prevent depraved images from being listed in results for more than 100,000 searches.

A Downing Street spokeswoman said: "Patrick Rock was one of a number of advisers and officials involved in dealing with this issue but the work was led by somebody else, and decisions were taken by ministers."

According to the Daily Mail, which broke news of the arrest, Rock took particular responsibility for home affairs issues in the No 10 policy unit.

Rock, from West London was brought back into Downing Street by Mr Cameron in 2011 after the pair both worked in the Home Office under Michael Howard in the 1990s, the paper said.
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Seriously??? What is wrong with people.
 
Paedo's are nice and easy to blackmail so I reckon blackmaiers try to get "their" paedo's into positions of power or influence so they can do the jobs the blackmailers want done.
 
Not surprising. These people generally aim to be in position if owner so they can influence children as well as law/police etc. Hence why so many used to be teachers, priests etc.


And what's it got to do with Tories, unless they knew about it and tried to hide it.
 
Isn't there a history of mainly Tory MPs and their dodgy dealings with harassment, indecent exposure and paedo pictures :p? I love the fact that this guy was behind the porn filter.
 
Is it me or does the guy look like Chris Langham?

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Well what sort of response did you expect?

You are implying that an unknown group of people or indeed "the men in grey suits", find a peado and then cultivate them and assist them in their rise to power just so they can get a few of their policies passed by blackmailing them?

or did i miss the point you was trying to make
 
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