$1M secured for SDPD’s Internet Crimes Against Children task force - FOX 5 San Diego

by: Amber Coakley

Posted: Oct 26, 2022 / 05:32 PM PDT

Updated: Oct 26, 2022 / 05:34 PM PDT

SAN DIEGO — Assemblymember Brian Maienschein’s bureau announced Wednesday $1 cardinal was secured from the State Budget for the San Diego Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children task force.

This comes arsenic astir 1 successful 7 children are contacted by an online predator, according to Maienschein’s property release. The intent of the task unit is to combat these efforts by helping instrumentality enforcement find and apprehension online kid predators.

“While astir families person household rules to support their children from engaging successful inappropriate online behavior, it is important that instrumentality enforcement besides enactment to support these unsafe individuals distant from our children,” Maienschein said. “I’m arrogant to person secured this backing to assistance the San Diego Police Department proceed to diligently analyse and apprehension these criminals.”

According to the property release, the task unit has seen an summation successful kid exploitation of implicit 300%, with a record-breaking 8,161 cases processed successful conscionable 2021 alone. Maienschein’s bureau said this drastic emergence successful Internet crimes demonstrates a wide request for further resources to proceed protecting children successful the region.

“The Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force handles thousands of cases and referrals each year,” San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit said. “This backing empowers investigators to support our children by providing the resources to investigate, apprehend, and prosecute criminals.”  

Maienschein’s bureau said the $1 cardinal assistance volition assistance the task unit beforehand technology, update grooming and prosecute further investigators to proceed arresting unsafe online predators.