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Police ‘lack resources’ to combat web paedophilia

Britain’s police are ill-equipped to deal with child abuse investigations, a child protection charity cautioned yesterday.

The NSPCC issued a warning to the police forces in England and Wales after details from a Freedom of Information request revealed a lack of officers trained to combat paedophilia.

Despite growing numbers of cases requiring technicians to go through thousands of seized computers and hardware, there are only a handful of officers per force available for the job.

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