Peter Wanless, chief executive of the NSPCC, said that although the scale of the allegations had provoked a national debate it was important not to panic.
The failures not only inflated police perceptions of the scale of false allegations, but led to a loss of information about perpetrators and risked undermining the victim's credibility if she made a later report of rape, the report said.
Sadiq Khan, the shadow Justice Secretary, said: "Given the scale of the allegations, the Government must immediately call in the police and the Serious Fraud Office to investigate both companies as fraud has potentially taken place".
But the scale of the allegations in a report issued on February 4th by Europol, the pan-European police agency closely aligned with Interpol, still managed to stun most observers.
What is notable about the documents the BBC has seen is not just the scale of the allegations against the company, but also the detail within them.
"The gravity and scale of these allegations begs the robust reaction of the international community," Zeid wrote at the time.
While such practices occur at scattered auto dealers across the country, Overholt said he is astonished by the sheer scale of the allegations.
The scoping exercise into the scale and nature of allegations against Savile had been completed, Spindler said, but police activity against other alleged abusers was still continuing.
Last week the German broadcaster ARD and the French newspaper Le Monde made new allegations about the scale of Diack's alleged fraud, while a week earlier Le Monde published new claims that Qatar paid bribes to try to secure the 2017 World Athletics Championships – an allegation Qatar denies.
At the time, it was billed as corporate India's biggest-ever scandal, though it has since been overtaken in scale by allegations of improprieties in telecommunications and the coal industry.
