This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Hibapress / Radio-Canada
Police claim to have carried out more than a hundred arrests and brought more than 300 accusations within the framework of a major national operation aimed at combating the exploitation of online children.
Representatives of the Royal Canadian Gendarmerie (RCMP) and other police bodies, including the Sûreté du Québec and the Ontario Provincial Police, took stock of this vast operation on Wednesday aimed at combating the sexual exploitation of online children.
Inspector Matthieu Girard, from the National Coordination Center against the exploitation of children in Rockersaid at a press conference that the recent operation, known as Steel projecthad made it possible to identify dozens of victims and to protect 37 children.
A total of 1132 electronic devices were seized, according to the Rocker. The accusations brought so far include the production, possession and distribution of juvenile pornography, as well as access to it.
Mr. Girard underlines that this assessment is preliminary and that hundreds of surveys are still in progress.
He said that the protection of children required a joint approach involving the police, governments, non -governmental organizations and technological companies.
