The senior police officer in London said Thursday that the city’s police department is examining its files but will not start an investigation into claims of sexual assault against Britain’s Prince Andrew, who is being sued in the United States.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick told British radio station LBC on Thursday, Aug. 12, that no inquiry against Andrew had been launched.  “I’m aware that currently, there is a lot more commentary in the media and an apparent civil court case going on in America and we will, of course, again, review our position.”

“As a result of what’s going on, I’ve asked my team to have another look at the material,” Cressida Dick, the police chief, said on a monthly call-in radio show she leads. “No one is above the law.”

The prince is accused of sexually abusing Giuffre when she was 17 years old in 2001, according to Giuffre’s complaint. Andrew, the third of Queen Elizabeth II’s four children, has rejected the claims on many occasions.

Dick refused to comment on any living individuals when questioned about the claims against Prince Andrew on her radio show. She did say, though, that she thought the inquiry was about charges against Jeffrey Epstein, which she was ready to comment on because he was no longer alive.

Virginia filed her complaint against Andrew on Monday, August 9th, and said in a statement, “As the suit lays out in detail, I was trafficked to him and sexually abused by him. I am holding Prince Andrew accountable for what he did to me. The powerful and rich are not exempt from being held responsible for their actions. I hope that other victims will see that it is possible not to live in silence and fear, but to reclaim one’s life by speaking out and demanding justice.”

The Metropolitan Police, according to Dick, are willing to collaborate with authorities from other nations.

“We are, of course, open to working with authorities from overseas,” the police chief said Thursday. “We will give them every assistance if they ask us for anything, within the law, obviously.”

Despite the fact that the information had already been reviewed twice, Dick said she had ordered her staff to ask: “Is there evidence of a crime? Is this the right jurisdiction for this to be dealt with, and is the person against whom the crime is alleged still alive?”

Epstein allegedly pushed Giuffre to have sex with Andrew. Her complaint claims that she had sexual meetings with the prince in London, New York, and the US Virgin Islands, and that he was aware that she had been trafficked by Epstein, who committed suicide in jail in 2019 while awaiting prosecution.

“Twenty years ago, Prince Andrew’s wealth, power, position, and connections enabled him to abuse a frightened, vulnerable child with no one there to protect her,” the complaint states. “During each of the aforementioned incidents, [Giuffre] was compelled by express or implied threats by Epstein, Maxwell, and/or Prince Andrew to engage in sexual acts with Prince Andrew and feared death or physical injury to herself or another and other repercussions for disobeying Epstein, Maxwell, and Prince Andrew due to their powerful connections, wealth, and authority.”