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UPDATE. Eight more words I never thought I'd write. POLICE FORCE CONFIRMS. IT WAS SHOCKING. POLICE OFFICERS. PUNCHING GIRLS. BATONS DRAWN. TASERS OUT. Teenage girls half their size. Nothing but a smart mouth. Punched. Pushed. Knocked to the ground in Rotherham. A uniform is supposed to mean protection. Here it meant permission. A Taser is a near lethal weapon. You pull it on someone who could KILL you, not a girl with attitude and empty hands. Strip the uniform off and the badge was the only thing dressing this up as a beating. The law calls that passive resistance. Not danger. The standard is minimum force, de-escalate first, restraint only as a last resort. Reaching for a baton wasn’t pressure. Nobody trained them to do that. They chose it. He was trained to DOMINATE. A thousand strong mob looted shops, set fireworks off, assaulted four officers, weeks ago in London. A hundred officers handled it over days, no batons, quiet CCTV arrests. In Rotherham, school leavers celebrating exams got punched and Tasered on the spot. This isn't one bad shift. It's Rotherham, where girls were raped by organised gangs for decades while protectors looked away. The IOPC found an officer told a victim's father nothing could be done, the town would erupt if the truth came out. A survivor said recently it's “not a thing of the past, it's still happening today”Watch this footage and tell her she's wrong. Every one of those girls is somebody’s daughter, young enough that someone hoped they could turn to the police for help. Now they’ve learned to run the other way. South Yorkshire Police have now confirmed an investigation, calling the clip "nothing short of shocking." Their own words. The Deputy Mayor for Policing says she's horrified, and expects anything falling short of professional conduct dealt with swiftly and robustly, especially when it involves young people. PSD are reviewing every second of bodycam footage, before, during and after. The Police Federation has already pushed back, saying clips rarely show the full story and officers deserve due process. Maybe. But a force investigating its own conduct and calling it shocking isn't exactly backing that defence either. A civilised country doesn't measure its policing by how hard it can hit the smallest person in the room. It measures it by whether it had to hit them at all. Not RUDE. DANGEROUS. Every baton and Taser pulled on a child was never a result. It was a failure.

All transgender prisoners will be moved out of women’s prisons today, the Justice Secretary has revealed