The AFP has charged 877 alleged offenders with more than 7,000 child abuse offences since the launch of the AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) five years ago.
Jack Changes the Game has won the Education Initiative Award, acknowledging its outstanding contribution to child protection, during this year’s Queensland Child Protection Week Awards at Brisbane Parliament House yesterday (30 August, 2023).
Neighbourhood Watch Australasia (NHWA) is midway through a powerful campaign to protect children from online sexual exploitation. The increase in young people (including children and infants) accessing the internet has seen a corresponding upward trend in cases of online child sexual exploitation.
An AFP covert online operative and senior child protection specialist Detective Superintendent Jayne Crossling from the AFP-led ACCCE, participated in Channel 9’s Parental Guidance television show (5 June 2023).
ACCCE analysts are seeing more children being sexually exploited online through secretive screen recording tactics and are urging communities to work together to address the problem.
AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw met with INTERPOL Secretary General Mr Jürgen Stock in November to announce the AFP’s $815,000 contribution to INTERPOL’s International Child Sexual Exploitation Database (ICSE).
