A Kinsa Success click here to read more about the impact of the trainingA training session with a group of Officers from Chile, taught by Arnold Guerin, NCECC (above); Officers from Chile (below).
The Internet has provided a real opportunity to identify and rescue victims whose abuse has been recorded and shared. There are approximately one million images of child abuse on the Internet involving about fifty thousand different victims. Interpol reports that less than 1,300 of these victims have been identified. For the last ten years, law enforcement agencies around the world have had officers dedicated to the image analysis of these “crime-scene” photographs. Often, clues in the background of the images help investigators identify the location that the picture was taken. For example, electrical outlets, consumer products, and even types of flowers, give officers trained in such “CSI” type of investigations, the ability to, when working with colleagues in this field, identify and rescue a victim. These specific efforts are coordinated by the Interpol Specialists Group on Crimes Against Children, in Lyon, France. Selflessly working with the “global team”, no matter where in the world the victim might live, is one of the main themes of the Kinsa training. With the establishment of an International Law Enforcement Training program, Kinsa as become widely recognized as a world leader on the investigative techniques needed to combat computer facilitated crimes against children. Kinsa works with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre (NCECC) in Ottawa, the Ontario Provincial Police, the Toronto Police Service and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deliver training to officers and prosecutors from developing countries. The training focuses on the methods employed to conduct child exploitation cyber crime investigations, including current investigative techniques and best practices being used by law enforcement agencies around the world. The Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) is a central component of the training. CETS was developed as a tool to enable law enforcement agencies around the world the ability to share information and collaborate on investigations. For more information about CETS click here. Global collaboration is the central theme of Kinsa training. Through Kinsa training, investigators are introduced to new social networks of investigators specifically dedicated to the investigation of computer facilitated crimes again children. To facilitate ongoing cooperation between law enforcement in different countries, Kinsa has developed and maintains an online community forum for Kinsa alumni so that they can communicate with each other – with members of their new social network - to develop and maintain relationships as they move forward in forming a global law enforcement presence on the Internet.