From your link Lox.

priority is to arrest offenders of all types of 'abhorrent' child abuse, whether street grooming, online or within the family.


"We recognised that there was an issue in relation to on-street grooming of young people by adults who have power over them by virtue of their age, gender, intellect or status."

Jack Straw, Blackburn MP, said: "These figures show what a great job Lancashire police is doing and the effectiveness of the Engage programme.

"The breakdown by ethnicity is consistent with what I've said all along, that the majority of perpetrators of this type of crime are white.

"But I maintain that there is an issue and a specific problem within some areas of the Pakistani community."