Paul Gillespie reports that the training sessions at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology with investigators from the Romanian National Police went very well. The sessions, encompassing the Computer Facilitated Sexual Exploitation of Children Course, ran from December 3rd to 7th, and offered presentations on:
* Victim management and interviewing techniques * Offender typology * Open source intelligence * Image analysis * Undercover operations * Note taking, securing evidence, case preparation * Prosecuting offenders and legal issues * Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS)
On December 8th, the National Post featured an excellent article describing the training sessions and participants:
For the sake of childrenCanadian police help lead the fight against child abuse on the Internetby Adrian Humphreys, National Post
The mournful photograph of a nine-year-old girl being sexually abused is unavoidably large, projected some two metres high at the front of a classroom before mercifully disappearing.
None of the men in the audience flinch.
The lecturer takes a quick sip of coffee before speaking.
"Be prepared for a lot of disappointment," says Detective Constable Warren Bulmer, a member of the Toronto police's pioneering Child Exploitation Section.
"Because you have to be extremely dedicated to look at these pictures day-in and day-out, knowing that there is probably nothing you can do to help."
Read the entire article here.