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Female passengers have made 32 claims of rape or sexual assault against Uber drivers in London over the past 12 months.

The Metropolitan Police Service and West Yorkshire Police released information on reports relating to the taxi app after The Sun requested information from 14 police forces.

West Yorkshire Police received four reports of serious sex assaults and eight violent incidents from February 2015 to February this year.

The Met had recorded 154 allegations involving taxi drivers, including minicabs, private chauffeurs and even rickshaw riders.

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Of those, 32 involved Uber drivers - which is the equivalent of one alleged attack being reported nearly three times a month in the capital.

Uber driver Aliriza Kurt, 42, was jailed for 18 months in January for sexually assaulting a woman in Brixton.

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Uber, which operates across 20 UK cities, claims to be the “safest ride on the road," but the latest figures follow a string of sexual assault claims in the US.

The Californian-based company was also banned in New Delhi, India, after a passenger was raped.

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An Uber spokesman said "All drivers who use the Uber app in London are fully licensed by Transport for London and have undergone exactly the same enhanced DBS checks as black cab drivers, teachers and care workers.

"We take any allegations of this nature very seriously - we work closely with the police on their inquiries and prevent drivers from using the app while investigations take place.

"Our GPS technology also means that every trip - more than one million in London each week - is electronically recorded."