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<strong>Child</strong> PornograPhy First report oF the Dutch NatioNal rapporteur
The Ministry of Security and Justice, the Public Prosecution Service and the police have developed a clear
focus with regard to the judicial approach to tackling child pornography. In summary, this focus consists
of a victim-oriented approach, which tackles hands-on producers of child abuse material in addition to
removing victims from their situation of victimisation. Within the scope of this judicial focus, publicprivate
sector partnerships are stated as an important prerequisite for tackling child abuse material on
the Internet, but the direction that public-private sector partnerships could take in order to contribute
towards putting a stop to child pornography has not been further developed. 867
In connection with the judicial focus on child pornography, a possible focus on public-private sector
partnerships and associated strategies can be derived from the literature and the interventions described
in §3.8.3. This focus on public-private sector partnerships could be directed at the accessibility of child
abuse material, identifying offenders and victims, and generating knowledge and resources to combat
child pornography. Related strategies for achieving this focus include making the private sector and
NGOs responsible for ‘sweeping clean’ the Internet environments, allowing the Internet community
to participate in detection, encouraging citizens to take responsibility for the use of technology, and
encouraging companies to operate in a socially responsible fashion whenever they offer digital services
and products. A clear focus, with associated strategies, can also provide direction to the (further) development
of a barrier model for child pornography.
Barrier model for child pornography
In 2009, the Minister for Justice established a Task Force to tackle child pornography and child
sex tourism in order to combat child sex tourism and the production, distribution and downloading
of material constituting child pornography. 868 One of the Task Force’s main tasks is to
support the programme-based approach by means of a barrier model. A barrier model is an
instrument used to promote an integrated and multi-disciplinary partnership for the tackling of
child pornography, by exploring, amongst other things, whether other parties that are not currently
involved would be able to play a role. The integrated identification of possible interventions
for the combating of child pornography is key. After the barrier model had been initially set
in motion by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations at the time, the responsibility
for the further development of this model was taken over by the Programme of Improvements
in Tackling <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong> [Programma Verbeteren Aanpak Kinderporno]. The Programme of Improvements
in Tackling <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong> expects the barrier model to make a contribution in
tackling the problem head-on, by promoting collaborative actions, implemented together with
partner organisations, and thereby preventing possible child pornography. In addition to this, it
is assumed that the model will influence the working process and methods of completion of the
process. The Programme of Improvements in Tackling <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong> additionally stated, in
867 The response of the Korpsmonitor 2010 to the question as to when the (national) plan for tackling
child pornography could be regarded as successful was, ‘when […] such a public-private partnership
exists that would enable us to develop a preventive programme and tackle the problem head on’,
Programma Verbeteren Aanpak Kinderporno [Programme of Improvements in Tackling <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong>],
2011, p.36.
868 Decision of the Minister of Justice of 6 November 2009, no.5627198/09, concerning the creation of
the Task Force Aanpak Kinderporno en Kindersekstoerisme. Dutch Government Gazette, 2009, no.17325, 17
November 2009.