In every example from Savile to Rochdale There were years or decades of kids coming forward and being ignored by police or branded troublemakers. Officials in public and private sector suppressing stories for various reasons. And in many cases, officers themselves being involved in abuse.

You don't fix these problems with people in various positions of power, by handing them more power. The GCHQ have a long history of infiltrating trade unions and protest groups; I very much doubt their motives.

I disagree with this.

Very high profile "untouchable" pedophiles have been and probably are still operating right in front of the police and they have not done anything out of choice or mandate through whichever political or societal connection that they have.

If they can't do anything about those people then why should they be granted extraordinary powers?

They could do standard undercover operations, infiltrate the rings, and bring then them down. This is a people problem not a technology problem.

My standpoint is that banning encryption or adding backdoors to it is not a feasible way of attacking this problem. Encryption methods don't stop to exist just because the government declares them illegal. Programs to encrypt messages will stay around and will continue to be used. Even if police set out to find anyone using encryption by spying on their traffic, the traffic could just be hidden as part of legitimate traffic.

But perhaps I'm underestimating the stupidity of criminals - perhaps they'd just stick to unencrypted communication. However, if the usage of Tor for illicit activities is any hint, I'd say that is unlikely.

Those rings are top down and covered up at every turn. When its the pedo warmonger necrophiles(Saville was a lifelong friend of Charles, Ghislaine was basically raised with the royals, need I go on?) in charge who want to break encryption be very wary.

You mean HTTPS is the devil's protocol?

Properly funding police and having a functioning court and probation service?

Social services having the resources to actually to their jobs?

The problem is they don't want to call out the groomer/child rape gangs because they're all from the third world countries they mass import from. They cover it up because they don't want to stir up negative feelings about them because that would be racist. That's their police's words not mine. It's a nightmare world where they sacrifice their little girls to avoid "racism."