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Eurojust 310 are used occasionally. With respect to international investigations, information is exchanged
now and then with police organisations in other countries. 311
The International <strong>Child</strong> Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) Image Database 312
In March 2009, the Interpol <strong>Child</strong> Abuse Image Database (ICAID) was replaced, after eight years
of use, by the Interpol International <strong>Child</strong> Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) Image Database. The ICSE
Image Database is a tool that prevents work being carried out in duplicate, and serves to identify
victims and perpetrators. Member States supply the material for the database. This data concerns
material in which the perpetrators and/or victims have already been identified, or material which
the country in question (TBI in the case of the Netherlands) regards as important, for example if a
case is international in nature.
Material that matches the following description 313 is included in the database:
1. Material or any image or movie or other media which forms part of a series which is in contravention of the
definition as set out in Article 20 – of the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of <strong>Child</strong>ren against
Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse 2007 “….any material that visually depicts a child engaged in real or
simulated sexually explicit conduct or any depiction of a child’s sexual organs for primarily sexual purposes.”
2. Any other material which, in the opinion of the member state or investigator, it is necessary to place in the
database.
Statistics relating to the extent of the material in the database is not available. Not all of the material
matches the description of child pornography offences in the various countries. Video material that
has been broken up into many separate images is also included in the database and this creates a
distorted picture. 314 However, information is being provided in relation to the number of identified
victims and perpetrators since the creation of the ICAID in 2001. The state of affairs on 1 August 2011
was as follows: 2,345 identified victims from 41 countries (85 of which are from the Netherlands 315 )
and 1,324 identified perpetrators from 41 countries (52 of which are from the Netherlands 316 ).
Royal Military Constabulary (KMar)
The Royal Military Constabulary (Schiphol District) has a commercial sex offences unit which deals with
tackling child pornography. The emphasis within this unit with regard to the detection of child abuse
310 Eurojust Factsheet, www.eurojust.europa.eu/childprotect_cases.pdf (viewed 30 June 2011).
311 Programme of Improvements in Tackling <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong>, 2011.
312 Information supplied in writing by Interpol, July 2011; Interpol, 2010; Interpol, 2011; Information supplied
verbally by TBI, 11 July 2011.
313 In view of the fact that text, for example, could be covered by this definition, the description is likely
to be adapted.
314 The EU has made funding available in order to develop the database to enable video material to be
stored in video format in the future, for example.
315 The Netherlands is ranked as the eighth most common country of origin (after the United States of
America (840), Canada (232), Germany (178), Sweden (152), Norway (132), the United Kingdom (114) and
France (103)). These 85 victims with Dutch nationality were not involved in the Amsterdam sexual abuse
case. These case details have not (yet) been passed on to Interpol (information supplied in writing, 1
September 2011).
316 The Netherlands is ranked as the fifth most common country of origin (after the United States of America
(539), Canada (148), Germany (125) and France (63)).