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Johnny Gwynne is the Director of NCA-CEOP. Before joining the NCA Johnny was a serving Chief Officer with Police Scotland and had previously been Deputy Director General of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency. He was seconded to the NCA in June 2013 and was Deputy Director of the Organised
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The CEOP's Home Office funding was frozen in 2010 and reduced by 10% over the subsequent three years. Staff numbers were increased during this period according to the CEOP, though former employees dispute this. In 2012–13 the budget was £6 million and there were 109 posts, which included 13 seconded
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The centre is split into three faculties; Intelligence, Harm Reduction and Operations. Each faculty is supported by teams covering governance, communications, partnerships and corporate services. The intelligence faculty receive intelligence of online and offline offenders; all reports made through
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are dealt with at any time of day so that law enforcement action can be taken. The Harm Reduction faculty manage Public Awareness campaigns and educational programmes, including the ThinkUKnow education programme, which is currently being used in
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The CEOP claims to have disrupted or dismantled 262 sex-offender networks between 2006 and 2010, and it says inquiries by its online investigators have led to more than 1,000 arrests during that period.
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in Southend, who was found dead the day after he was interviewed by police about images of children undressing in changing rooms which had been found in his possession.
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CEOP is made up of police officers with specialist experience of tracking and prosecuting sex offenders, working with people from organisations including the
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In September 2015, gross misconduct notices were served on four police officers who had held management roles in CEOP. The actions were part of an
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CEOP combines police powers with expertise from the business sector, government, specialist charities and other interested organisations.
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where he admitted grooming schoolgirls for sex, as well as possession of indecent images of children. Costi was caught when a
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girl told her mother about his chatroom messages. Judge Jonathan Teare sentenced Costi to a total of nine years in prison.
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Members, leading to 700 new suspects being followed up by law enforcement agencies around the world.
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Crime Command before competing for and being appointed to the role of Director of the CEOP Command.
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The CEOP Centre is also a partner in an international law enforcement alliance – the
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CEOP gained its first successful prosecution in June 2006, when Lee Costi, 21, of
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Following this, in June 2007, Timothy Cox was jailed at a court in
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in bringing a global policing response to censoring the Internet.
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Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
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police officers. Additional money and resources came from the
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Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigation
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Non-police law enforcement agencies of the United Kingdom
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Launch of Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
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in Cambridge, and Martin Goldberg, the deputy head of
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Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
Logo of CEOP
National agency
United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Yvette Cooper
Home Secretary
Johnny Gwynne
National Crime Agency
www.ceop.police.uk
National Crime Agency
child sex offenders
child abuse material
Crime and Courts Act 2013
NSPCC
Childnet
Microsoft
AOL
Action for Children
NSPCC
Barnardos
Serco
Vodafone
Department for Education
Home Office
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The Scout Association
the Football Association
England and Wales Cricket Board

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