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17/10/2014
UK Police Establish Child Abuse Images Database
A national database of child sexual abuse images is being created in an effort to help UK police better co-ordinate their investigations.
The Child Abuse Image Database (CAID) will store material seized by police during investigations on paedophiles and websites that they use for trading content.
The database is just one part of an international effort to catalogue and classify images and trace victims of abuse.
It is understood that it was decided a system like CAID was needed as detectives investigating abusers and websites could find themselves with many thousands of images, with a great number appearing in different investigations due to content being traded amongst abusers.
The establishment of the database has been described as a "watershed moment" in "this government's drive to stamp out the despicable crime of online child sexual exploitation".
(MH/CD)
The Child Abuse Image Database (CAID) will store material seized by police during investigations on paedophiles and websites that they use for trading content.
The database is just one part of an international effort to catalogue and classify images and trace victims of abuse.
It is understood that it was decided a system like CAID was needed as detectives investigating abusers and websites could find themselves with many thousands of images, with a great number appearing in different investigations due to content being traded amongst abusers.
The establishment of the database has been described as a "watershed moment" in "this government's drive to stamp out the despicable crime of online child sexual exploitation".
(MH/CD)
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