UK online pedophiles too many to prosecute: NCA
The head of the UKs National Crime Agency , Keith Bristow
Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:13AM GMT
Britain will not charge pedophiles that possess child abuse images because
of the high volume of people engaging in such activities.
According to the head of the UKs National Crime Agency (NCA), Keith
Bristow, it was "not realistic" to prosecute the 50,000 people in Britain
who have viewed and shared child abuse images.
"Our responsibility is to focus on the greatest risk and tackle those
people," he said.
The British Labour party labeled the NCAs inactivity as "disgraceful" and
said that the NCA was not fit to deal with the problem.
This is a disgraceful policy from the National Crime Agency and the Home
Secretary which sees the vast majority of people downloading vile child
abuse images not investigated, while children remain at risk, said Labours
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.
She went on to say that the NCA has details on tens of thousands of
offenders who have accessed images of child abuse, but has only made 600
arrests.
Of course they need to look first for the most dangerous cases, but it
seems most cases arent being investigated at all, she added.
She also said that if the NCA does not have the sufficient resources to
investigate all cases, how come the police arrest more than 220,000 people
a year for theft and more than 110,000 for drug offences.
The NCA is the UKs lead agency against cyber crime, drug trafficking,
economic crime and human trafficking and became fully operational on October
7, 2013.
In September, hundreds of indecent images of school children were found on
the computer of a British teacher.
According to the police, nearly 600 secretly taken indecent images of boys
aged nine to 12 were found on the computer of Martin Goldberg, the deputy
head teacher of a school in Essex, England.
Recent reports show that British schools have witnessed a 40-percent rise in
sex-crime reports from 2011 to 2013, with at least 2,865 cases being
recorded.
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