The Sexual Exploitation of Children: Can You Recognise the Signs? The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), 2012. Training film. Available free: http://www.cse.siyonatech.com; http://www.youtube.c

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Griffin ◽  
Caroline Vost
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Training Film

scholarly journals CRIME INVESTIGATIONS OF ‘CHILD ABUSE MATERIAL’: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES POSED BY DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Eneman
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Sexual Interest ◽  
Child Pornography ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Child Abuse Material

The increased digitalisation of society has profoundly changed the circumstances for people with a sexual interest in children to engage in the production, distribution and consumption of child abuse material. In addition, digital technologies enable contact and communication with other like-minded individuals sharing the same sexual interest in children and also facilitate new forms of getting in contact with children (potential victims). Child abuse material (sometimes also referred to as child pornography) refers to documented material depicting the sexual abuse and/or sexual exploitation of a child (or children). The overall purpose with this study is to explore the practices where crime investigations of child abuse material occur within the Swedish police authority. This research in progress paper will reflect on what challenges and opportunities police officers do encounter when investigating child abuse material in relation to digital technologies? The involved technology will be investigated in relation to technological affordance and empirically the study is based upon qualitative interviews with police officers.

scholarly journals Police Misconduct as a Breach of Public trust: the Offence of Misconduct in Public Office

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Davids ◽  
Marilyn McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Police Misconduct ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Public Office ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common ◽  
Criminal Conduct ◽  
Vulnerable Persons

Until relatively recently, the common law offence of misconduct in public office has been regarded as anachronistic. The offence was perceived to have been supplanted by specific statutory offences that could more appropriately deal with criminal conduct by public officials. However, there has been a revival of the offence with successful prosecutions occurring in Australia, England and Hong Kong. Many of these contemporary cases have involved police officers. Examination of these cases reveals that the circumstances in which misconduct in public office has been identified have been diverse, including the unauthorised disclosure of confidential information, the use of false search warrants and the sexual exploitation of vulnerable persons. In many instances, police officers were charged with other criminal offences in addition to charges relating to misconduct in public office. The matters prosecuted as misconduct in public office typically involved matters that were serious and/or could not be adequately prosecuted as other criminal offences or as breaches of police regulations governing conduct. Consequently, despite the proliferation of statutory criminal offences in the 20th century it appears that there continues to be a place for the offence of misconduct in public office. It criminalises misconduct by police officers that may not be adequately dealt with by other offences and recognises the public trust dimension of wrongdoing by these officials. However, a continuing and fundamental challenge is to determine the appropriate definition and scope of the offence.

scholarly journals Can Clients Who Pay for Sexual Services Help Victims of Sex Trafficking?

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Carmen Meneses ◽  
Jorge Uroz ◽  
Antonio Rua
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Sexual Services

This article explores the possibility that clients of prostitution could help victims of trafficking. In Spain, prostitution is not prohibited and the men who pay for sex are the first people who make contact with victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation. Ninety-seven interviews concerning the possible detection and reporting by clients of trafficking for prostitution were analysed, (48 of them with key informants “NGO members, prosecutors and police officers “17 interviews with clients of prostitution and 22 with women who were victims of sex trafficking). The findings presented here show two types of clients, Personalisers and Thingers, with the former being the most likely to collaborate in the detection and rescue of victims of trafficking. However greater awareness in clients of prostitution is needed to enable them to collaborate. 

Accountability in International Policing

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 92-117
Author(s):  
Katarina Grenfell
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
West African ◽  
Refugee Camps ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Police Personnel ◽  
African Refugee

Accountability is critical in international policing. In order to be able to carry out its policing mandates, the UN needs to have competent and disciplined police officers subject to the rule of law. The UN has undertaken a host of measures to enhance accountability post reports of sexual exploitation and abuse in West African refugee camps in 2003. While prevention of misconduct is key, significant deficiencies remain in the legal framework for the accountability of UN police serving in post conflict countries. The UN needs to continue its work with Member States to close legal loopholes and ensure the accountability of its police so as to strengthen its ability to carry out its policing mandates. Further, the responsibility of the Organization may be incurred in respect of the acts and omissions of its police personnel.

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