Rise in child abuse online threatens to overwhelm UK police, officers warn
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Sheer quantity of abusive material hindering detection while Facebook move to greater encryption is a further blow.
By Harriet Grant
The vast, and growing, volume of child abuse material being created and shared online is threatening to overwhelm police efforts to tackle it, senior officers have told the Guardian.
And the situation is likely to worsen, National Crime Agency (NCA) child abuse lead Rob Jones warned, if social media sites such as Facebook press ahead with further encryption of messaging services.
Law enforcement against online child abuse in the UK was ‘the best in the world by some distance’, Jones said. ‘But we are arresting and dealing with more offenders than ever, the numbers are growing and growing, as are the number of children being safeguarded.’
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