LONDON — The police force in the hometown of the disgraced British television presenter Jimmy Savile said Friday that there was no evidence that its officers shielded him from arrest or prosecution in any of scores of cases of sexual abuse, mainly of teenage girls, that surfaced after he died in 2011.

But the inquiry uncovered evidence of what seemed to be a cozy and largely undocumented network of high-level contacts between Mr. Savile and the police and other members of the elite at a regular social gathering known as the Friday Morning Club in his apartment.

It also found that even after complaints against Mr. Savile were made elsewhere in Britain, the police in his hometown, Leeds, 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.

“It seems to me that West Yorkshire police over the years failed to join up the dots,” said Alan Collins, a lawyer representing 40 of the hundreds of people who have made accusations against Mr. Savile since his death at age 84. “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.”