Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
What We Do
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP)
Centre is dedicated to eradicating the sexual abuse of children.
That means we are part of UK policing and very much about tracking
and bringing offenders to account either directly or in partnership
with local and international forces.
But our approach is truly holistic. Walk through the CEOP Centre
today and within any one team you will find police officers
specialising in this area of criminality working with professionals
from the wider child protection community and industry. You will
find seconded staff from organisations such as the NSPCC, teams
sponsored by the likes of VISA and SERCO and experts from
government and corporations such as Microsoft offering specialist
advice and guidance.
That approach is dedicated to building up intelligence that in
turn drives the business, informs our operational deployments,
steers our CEOP Academy programmes to law enforcement, child
protection and educational sectors and drives our dedicated
Thinkuknow programme for children and parents of all ages.
It is an approach that sees the development of specialist areas
such as our Behavioural Analysis Unit, our approach to victim
identification or the development of our Child Trafficking Unit as
well as filtering into all areas of our outreach activities such as
the Most Wanted initiative and our public awareness plans.
In fact the real lifeblood of the CEOP Centre is intelligence -
how offenders operate and think, how children and young people
behave and how technological advances are developing - all are
integral to what we are about and what we deliver.
But similarly our results would not be possible without
inclusion. So we are about opening the policing doors
to new ways of thinking around this crime, working with industry,
government, children's charities and the wider policing community
to explore all options and possibilities. In fact we want and
will explore all options because we believe you can never stand
still when dealing with such a complex, ever changing issue and
where apathy can and does result in devastating consequences.
