October 30th, 2007
Child abuse specialists at a new police unit will study hundreds of hours of interviews with abusers to determine how they think & behave. The data will be used to identify behaviour patterns & to build criminal profiles. Read the full story on the BBC website
June 12th, 2007
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre has launched its first year figures. Amongst the announcements today is that news that the Centre has delivered ThinkUKnow education training to over 750,000 UK school children with sessions looking at online internet safety. 1 million kids will have attended by the end of the academic year. This is a great achievement for CEOP which was set up in April 2006. Its mandate, first and foremost, is child protection: Enpower, Protect, Enforce. This includes using a multitude of resources to focus on tackling high risk, high impact offenders.