SHOCKING footage shows the moment cops caught a paedophile with a young teenage girl in a seedy hotel room.
Police officers stormed the hotel in Manchester after receiving a harrowing emergency call from a staff member.
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Video captured on bodycam shows a Greater Manchester Police officer banging heavily on the door.
He is heard saying: “Police open the door, I’m going to open it.”
The 999 call was made by a concerned hotel worker who reported that a 14-year-old girl was in a room with an “over-age man”.
In the audio of the emergency call, it can be heard that the hotel was notified by two women from a care home about the disgusting crime.
Once the man eventually opens the door, cops can be heard asking the paedophile why he “didn’t answer the door” straightaway.
Dressed in a black t-shirt, the sick man is then escorted outside before being formally arrested by police.
The footage ends with the man sitting in a police car as the reason for his arrest is read out.
Sergeant Ian Haselden, from Greater Manchester Police, conducts operations during which officers pretend to be an abuser and travel to a hotel with a child acting as a victim.
They then attempt to book a room while displaying signs of suspicious behaviour.
He said: “We’d rather they be safe than sorry, because this is an extremely serious crime and we don’t want them to worry about making the wrong call.
“If hotels are suspicious the gold standard response is to call the police.”
It comes after new data came to light revealing that police have received hundreds of reports of child sexual abuse in hotels.
Children have been raped and abused in high street hotel chains while offenders “put a do not disturb sign on the door and do whatever they want”, reports the BBC.
Although offences in hotels made up less than one per cent of all recorded child sexual violence crimes in England and Wales, police say the crime is likely under-reported.
In 2023, 504 offences were recorded, of which 464 involved physical contact with a child and 203 were recorded as rape.
The figures revealed that 84 per cent of the victims were female. 26 per cent of victims were aged 15, 18 per cent were aged 16, and 17 per cent were aged 17.
Almost all suspects (92 per cent) were men, and the average age of suspects was 28.
Around four per cent of the reported offences were identified as group based, although victims have said that even when perpetrators turn up alone, they are often part of grooming gangs where children are swapped between abusers.
One victim, who was often brought to hotels by her abuser, has said the data is unsurprising.
She told the BBC: “You can put a Do not disturb sign on the door and then they can do whatever they want with nobody wondering what’s going on.
“I can’t even stay in a hotel now without thinking about what happened to me.”
The National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) says where specific hotels were recorded by police many were in major towns and cities, with transport links such as train stations and motorways nearby making it easy for perpetrators to meet victims.
Phil Ashford, from the NPCC child sexual exploitation taskforce, said: “Once you’re behind that hotel bedroom door, there’s a degree of privacy that perpetrators often don’t find elsewhere when they commit abuse.
“We’re talking about some of the most serious contact offending imaginable – the rape and serious sexual abuse of children.”