An inquiry uncovered evidence of what seemed a cozy and largely undocumented network of high-level contacts between Jimmy Savile and the police and other members of the elite at a regular social gathering known as the Friday Morning Club in his apartment. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/world/europe/british-police-deny-protecting-jimmy-savile.html?emc=eta1&_r=0 The police force in the hometown of the disgraced British television presenter  Savile said on Friday that there was no evidence that its officers shielded Mr. Savile from arrest or prosecution in any of scores of cases of sexual abuse. It also found that even after complaints against Mr. Savile were made elsewhere in Britain, the police in Leeds, his hometown, continued to turn to him for help in promoting crime prevention campaigns, relying on his celebrity status as a quirky entertainer known publicly for charitable works. “They had intelligence that something wasn’t right, if I can put it as mildly as that, and, against that background, they were using Savile for crime prevention campaigns and so on.” “Savile was able to run rings around the police for decades. He used police officers. He was ingrained with them, dovetailed with them.” “However, evidence now suggests that he was a predatory pedophile and manipulative liar who caused harm to so many.
The West Yorkshire Police inquiry found that some officers from the West Yorkshire Police force routinely attended the Friday Morning Club in the northern city of Leeds, where Mr. Savile lived.The police report on Friday suggested that Mr. Savile’s relationship with individual police officers was close enough for one of them, at least, identified only as Inspector A, to intercede on his behalf when officers in Surrey, in southern England, contacted the West Yorkshire force in 2007 about an abuse allegation.