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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.

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.

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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.

POLICE WORLD Vol 61 No. 4, 2016

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