Various agencies are preparing for an increase in child trafficking around the time of the 2012 games in London. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre (Ceop) has told CYP Now it wants to make it easier for people to report suspicious activity.
Alex Nagle, head of strategy, policy and governance at Ceop, said the intention is to create a system that will feed information to Ceop and local police on suspected activity.
Taking the lead
"There is nowhere at the moment to report child trafficking and missing children relatively easily," he said. "We want to use a 'Click Ceop'-style button to get intelligence about traffickers and abductors. We don't want people to report cases of missing children to us, because local police have primacy for this and are better able to respond to emergencies. But we do want to build up a picture of what type of abuse is happening and who is committing it."
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