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| More than 260 charged in online child abuse operation | More than 260 charged in online child abuse operation |
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| Teachers, civil servants and police are among 264 people that have been charged following an probe targeting those accessing child abuse images online. | |
| A total of 745 suspected paedophiles have been arrested in the National Crime Agency's Operation Notarise, launched just over a year ago. | |
| The agency said 518 children had been protected as a result. | The agency said 518 children had been protected as a result. |
| Of those charged, 47 were employed in positions of trust or voluntary roles with access to children, the NCA said. | Of those charged, 47 were employed in positions of trust or voluntary roles with access to children, the NCA said. |
| Those facing charges include: | Those facing charges include: |
| The charges range from taking indecent images of children to committing sexual offences. | |
| In addition 16 other people have been cautioned by police. | In addition 16 other people have been cautioned by police. |
| 'Difficult lessons' | |
| Operation Notarise is the largest UK inquiry into people sharing child abuse images online since Operation Ore in 2002. | |
| NCA director general Keith Bristow said the organisation's response to the problem was "improving significantly", but warned "further difficult lessons" may lay ahead. | |
| He said the volume of work related to online paedophile cases had placed a strain on investigators and said the criminal justice system may need to adapt to cope with the scale of offending. | |
| Mr Bristow expressed concerns about the ability to identify suspects quickly enough by "resolving" their internet protocol (IP) addresses, and establishing evidence to bring perpetrators to justice. | |
| He added: "We are going to need to think differently about what the criminal justice process might look like for some of these people. | |
| "We absolutely don't subscribe to the view that people who have accessed images should be offered an outcome that falls short of criminal justice outcomes. | |
| "But our judgment is that criminal justice intervention will potentially need to offer some sort of support to prevent people from reoffending." | |
| He said investigations increasingly took into account the risk posed by individuals who access images of abuse. |