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Implementation
in cases of online abuse, to Helpwanted.nl. Victims will also soon be able to use an online ‘reporting
button’, which is currently being developed within the scope of the Digivaardig & Digibewust programme.
It is important in this regard that the ‘behind-the-scenes’ aspects of the reporting button initiative are
well-organised.
Identification of content
Internet users may also encounter child abuse material on the Internet, and they can report this content
that they have identified to the privately-run Hotline Combating <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong> on the Internet
and/or the Cyber Crime Reporting Website run by the police. It is important that abusive content that
has been reported is removed by ISPs as soon as possible. In order to ensure that this happens, the
agreements between the Hotline Combating <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong> on the Internet and the police must be
revised. The British counterpart hotline, the Internet Watch Foundation, may serve as an example in this
regard. It may be possible to consider expanding the remit of the Hotline Combating <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong>
on the Internet, for example to extend to monitoring and/or shutting down forums and networks – possibly
within the scope of the Stop it Now! project (see also §3.8.4).
3.4 Detection
3.4.1 Introduction
This section will outline the working process in relation to the detection of child abuse material. A
description will be given of the organisation that has been put in place within the police force in relation
to the detection of producers, distributors and possessors of child abuse material, and the working
methods of the various police divisions will be explained. The strategy to tackle child pornography
involves a number of complicating factors, however, such as a continuous influx of cases from other
countries and the unknown nature of a case before it is investigated (does it only involve possession
of child abuse material or are there indications that point to production and therefore abuse?). Such
factors make it difficult to assign priority to certain investigations at an early stage. These complicating
factors will also be discussed.
At the time of writing this report, various developments are underway with regard to the way in which
detection is organised. First of all, the new structure of the future national police force is under development.
The police have also collaborated with the Public Prosecution Service (OM) in order to investigate
what improvements could be made to the current strategy to tackle child pornography. One of the results
of that collaboration was the Programme of Improvements in Tackling <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong>. This section
will describe the current working method and will attempt to formulate points for improvement on the
basis of that current working method. Nevertheless, we will also examine the new structure, in so far as
this is clear at the present time. Finally, we will indicate which elements will certainly need to be included
in the new structure in order to improve the effectiveness of detection activities.
3.4.2 Working method in detection
Images that constitute child pornography serve an important function in detection: after all, characteristics
of perpetrators, victims and their surroundings in the images provide important indications that
increase the likelihood of detection. If child abuse material is found on a computer, this may constitute
grounds for a major investigation involving the rescue of victims and the arrest of perpetrators. Material
not only contains indications for use in detecting offences listed in Article 240b of the Dutch Criminal
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