Police have lost track of dozens of registered sex offenders, Met admits

The Metropolitan Police disclosed that 123 offenders have managed to elude officers and their whereabouts remains unknown. Some of them have been missing for up to 14 years, Scotland Yard said. Detectives believe that 48 of them have managed to flee the country, despite warrants for their arrest being circulated nationwide. The Met revealed that although it knew in 2008 that there were 123 sex offenders unaccounted for, it still has not managed to reduce that figure. It is understood that the majority of those still at large were among those who could not be traced four years ago.