THE CHILD EXPLOITATION AND ONLINE PROTECTION CENTRE Gabrielle Shaw Head of International and Relatio

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THE CHILD EXPLOITATION AND ONLINE PROTECTION
CENTREGabrielle ShawHead of International and
RelationsChild Exploitation and Online
Protection Centre
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What does CEOP do?
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Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre

• Holistic approach
• Intelligence and Knowledge as drivers
• Harm reduction and prevention
• Aggressive operational focus
• Child focused
• Partnerships
• Use of media

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Intelligence

• Report abuse
• Intelligence assessment and development
• Offender management
• Analysis

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Law enforcement (what are we doing?)

• Numerous worldwide law enforcement operations
  targeting
• Pay per view web-sites.
• Peer to peer distribution.
• Child sexual abuse chat-rooms.
• Live sexual abuse web-cam rings.
• On-line grooming.
• Upload/download via bulletin boards links.

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Pay-per-view, peer to peer BBS uploading
downloading

• Cases can involve a large amount of data relating
  to a high numbers of suspects.
• Have identified a large number of actual abusers
  including the rape and sexual abuse of a baby.
• Have identified and ensured the safety of a
  number of children at risk of abuse.

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Success!

• These cases were only dealt with successfully
  because of our partnership with
• Industry
• UK police forces
• Overseas law enforcement agencies

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Operations

• Specialist Operational Support
• Covert Internet Investigators
• Financial Investigation team
• Victim Identification

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Harm Reduction

• International
• Education
• Training
• Behavioural Analysis
• Child Trafficking
• Safer by Design

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Strategic Threat Assessment

• Children/young peoples behaviour
• Offender behaviour
• Environment
• Convergence of factors

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Key Issues

• Online/offline distinction
• Convergence of technology
• Image sharing

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THE VIRTUAL GLOBAL TASKFORCE (VGT)

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What is the Virtual Global Taskforce?

• a global partnership between law enforcement
  working together to protect children online

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Who is in the VGT?

• Currently six law enforcement agencies
• Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
  (United Kingdom) - CHAIR
• Australian Federal Police (Australia)
• Italian National Postal and Communication Police
  (Italy)
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Canada)
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement (United
  States of America)
• Interpol

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What has the VGT done?

• Set up in 2003. Since then
• Joint operations
• Information sharing infrastructure
• Joint education/awareness raising initiatives
• www.virtualglobaltaskforce.com

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Information Sharing

• secure infrastructure to share information
  between VGT members
• processes to ensure 24/7 response
• hundreds of leads disseminated over the past
  twelve months
• an immediate response where a child is at risk

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VGT Website

• www.virtualglobaltaskforce.com launched 26
  January 2005
• raise awareness of the VGT
• 20 million hits since launch date
• links from over 4,000 websites
• a VGT presence and VGT links where children play
  and offending occurs

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Joint education and awareness raising

• Sharing education resources
• Sharing training resources
• Bi-annual conference
• VGT commercial

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Whats next for the VGT?

• Increase membership of the VGT
• Agree the VGT framework document
• Continue low-cost/high-impact initiatives
• 2/3 VGT Board meetings a year
• Participate in VGT operations/initiatives

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YOUTH PARTICIPATION

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International Youth Advisory Congress (IYAC)

• To provide an international platform that
  engages children and young people globally and
  empowers them to provide a direction that
  improves online safety and security for
  children.

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The IYAC Event

• Held from 17 to 21 July 2008 in London
• 148 youth delegates from 19 different countries
• Argentina, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Egypt,
  Greece, Iceland, India, Italy, Namibia,
  Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Republic of
  Ireland, Sweden, Spain, United Kingdom, United
  State of America and Zimbabwe

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The Remit of IYAC

• To unite up to one hundred and fifty young people
  between the ages of fourteen and seventeen in a
  forum where they could work together in creating
  the worlds first Global Online Charter.

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The Focus of IYAC

• In developing their recommendations for the
  Global Online Charter, the IYAC youth delegates
  were encouraged to explore their use of mobile
  and internet technologies in relation to safety
  and security issues.

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IYAC and the UNCRC

• The Global Online Charter will also serve as part
  of a policy proposal based upon the theme of
  Child Protection in the Converged Environment to
  be presented for consideration in the 2009
  Resolution of the United Nations Convention on
  the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

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IYAC and the World Congress III

• Competition held for an IYAC youth delegate to
  attend the World Congress III Against Sexual
  Exploitation of Children and Young People (Rio de
  Janeiro, 25-28 November 2008)
• This youth representative presented the Global
  Online Charter at the World Congress III
• They engaged fully in the World Congress III, and
  shared their feelings about child sexual
  exploitation in relation to mobile and internet
  technologies.

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Final Thoughts

• Understand the environment
• Focus on behaviour
• Partnership working
• Holistic approach
• Awareness and understanding