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Dr
Michael Bourke
is a Chief Psychologist for the
US Marshal Service. He assists law enforcement
investigating sex crimes against children through
interrogation techniques, threat and violence risk
assessment and the administration of polygraph
tests.
Detective Inspector Daniel Szumilas
from the
BKA (Bundeskriminalamt) in Germany spoke
of how they use primary schools to help with
the identification of child victims. The schools
are used as a last resort. Twice a year, before
and after semester, the BKA gather all their
cases with unknown children together and send
packages to the regional police. The regional
police contact all primary schools in their area.
BKA gets feed-back from the primary schools, via
the regional police, and vice versa.
Marcus Erikson
is working as a senior financial
intelligence professional at AUSTRAC. AUSTRAC
is Australia’s financial intelligence unit with
regulatory responsibility for anti-money laundering
and counter-terrorism financing. They assist in the
investigations and prosecution of serious criminal
activity.
Narin Phetthong
is with the Royal Thai Police.
He shared the results of a study of Patterns,
Developments & Evidence Based Practices in
Anti-Child Sex Tourism in Thailand.
In the study they found that all suspects where
male. They also looked in to the offender’s social
status, what part of the world they came from, if
they had any previous records, their preferences
in victim’s age, the MO of the offenders, where
the offense occurred, and so on.
The analysis of the study showed that efficient
investigative strategies would be cooperation
with international police and victims, use of
surveillance, undercover officers and to monitor
websites and social networks.
At the Royal Thai Police a new unit, TICAC, has
been created. TICAC is Thailand Internet Crime
Against Children.
Neil Walsh
, from the UNODC, told us how they
work with El Salvador. They have provided
the forensic/technical unit in El Salvador with
everything from tables to software. They are
currently trying to get them connected to the ICSE
database.
As I had travelled half way around the world I also
took the opportunity to visit the Task Force Argos
in Brisbane. They were kind enough to guide me
around their office and show me how they work.
Of course I could not leave Brisbane and Australia
without visiting Steve Erwin’s Australia Zoo. That,
as well as the conference, is something that I will
remember for the rest of my life.
POLICE WORLD
Vol 61 No. 4, 2016
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