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Implementation
Recording of data by the Cyber Crime Reporting Website
Table 3.6 shows the number of reports to the Cyber Crime Reporting Website in relation to child pornography
248 for the years 2008 to 2010 inclusive. These child pornography reports largely concern grooming-
related cases. 249
Table 3.6 Number of reports of child pornography to Meldpunt Cybercrime
2008 2009 2010 Total
N 536 430 401 1.367
Source: Meldpunt Cybercrime (information supplied at the request of BNRM)
The figures clearly show that the Cyber Crime Reporting Website [Meldpunt Cybercrime] drew greater attention
in 2008 than in the two successive years. However, recent or current events, such as the Amsterdam
sexual abuse 250 case, also had an effect upon the number of reports made. For example, roughly twice
as many reports made were in relation to child pornography in the months December 2010 and January
as the number of reports in the preceding months. 251
Meldpunt Kinderporno op Internet compared with Meldpunt Cybercrime
– Meldpunt Kinderporno op Internet is an independent privately-run hotline that can be contacted
anonymously (2,602 reports in 2010 relating to abusive material involving children and constituted
a criminal offence, of which 1,260 concerned material hosted on servers in the Netherlands).
This hotline forms part of the international umbrella network INHOPE and focuses its
activities upon providing information.
248 On the basis of broad categorisation by staff at the emergency service (unit intake). Please note: one report
may consist of information relating to multiple offences. On the other hand, it is also possible that
different reports may be made in relation to the same offence. Those reported in duplicate are in fact only
noticed by Team Beeld en Internet [the Images and Internet Team ] (back-office) and not in the intake stage.
249 Meldpunt Cybercrime does not record cases in sub-categories within the child pornography category and
for this reason we do not know exactly how many reports within the child pornography category relate
to grooming etc. Meldpunt Cybercrime will record more details in the future, however and will re-categorise
all reports from 2007 onwards in order to create greater insight into the nature of the reports. The
provisional analysis showed that 80% of the reports of child pornography from March 2007 to March
2011, inclusive, involve a form of grooming. In 15-20% of cases, ‘actual’ reports of child pornography
involve abusive content featuring children that the police also deem to constitute a criminal offence
(material suspected to be child pornography by citizens does not always correspond with the definition
of child pornography under criminal law. It is also regularly the case that the reported material can no
longer be found on the stated Internet site). Information supplied verbally and in writing by Meldpunt
Cybercrime, 4 May, 24 and 27 June 2011.
250 For further information about this case, see §3.7.5.
251 Sixty-six reports involving child pornography were made in December 2010 compared with at least 20
and up to 39 reports of child pornography in the months January to November 2010 inclusive. Sixty-two
child pornography-related reports were made in January 2011. NB. Additional funds are currently being
invested in order to raise the profile of Meldpunt Cybercrime.
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