The investigation - which has led to the arrest of 120 people - concerns sexual abuse of vulnerable girls and women
Police probing the widespread sexual abuse of vulnerable girls and women have received a total of 60 complaints.
The investigation - codenamed Operation Sanctuary - was launched in response to the sexual offences in Newcastle and surrounding areas.
A total of 120 people have now been arrested and 21 people have been charged since its launch in January.
Just this month predators Hafeez Cole Oye-Dada and Moses Ologbenla were jailed for a total of 16 years after being snared as part of the crackdown on cases against vulnerable girls and women.
Two vulnerable schoolgirls tried to kill themselves after being plied with drink and drugs and subjected to vile sex attacks.
Oye-Dada raped a 14-year-old girl after “cynically exploiting” her by giving her alcohol and cannabis.
He waited until she was incapable through intoxication then attacked her at his friend’s home in the west end of Newcastle, leaving her half naked in a pool of vomit on a bare mattress.
In another room of the property, Ologbenla was subjecting the girl’s 14-year-old friend to another sex attack after getting her drunk on vodka and cannabis.
As married father Oye-Dada was locked up for 10 years for rape and Ologbenla six years for sexual activity with a child, it emerged both victims had taken overdoses after their ordeals.
In a separate case in July this year Gurhan Sayan became the first to be jailed under Operation Sanctuary.
The 45-year-old picked up his 28-year-old victim and assaulted her after finding her slumped on the roadside as he drove through Newcastle, the city’s Crown Court heard.
The victim, who was planning on meeting a friend in town, had fallen after losing her shoe outside the Union Rooms bar, on Westgate Road.
She remembered being approached by a man who gave her back her shoe and put a hand on her shoulder, but the next thing she recalls is waking up on the back seat of a car, 20 minutes later, before the driver who she had never met before, climbed into the back and sexually assaulted her.
Sayan, of Plunkett Terrace, Chester-le-Street, pleaded guilty to sexual assault and was jailed for 45 months.
The news comes as a widespread child abuse ring in Rotherham was laid bare.
An inquiry found at least 1,400 children in the town were sexually exploited by predominantly Asian criminal gangs between 1997 and 2013.
A report commissioned by the council was published on Tuesday and revealed the massive scale of abuse in Rotherham.
The inquiry team noted fears among council staff of being labelled “racist” if they focused on victims’ descriptions of the majority of abusers as “Asian” men.
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