Australian Immigration Daily News

The battle against child exploitation and abuse will be substantially boosted with the opening of the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) in Brisbane today.  Abuse of children is a global epidemic that is becoming more prevalent, more organised and more extreme.

The Minister for Home Affairs, Hon Peter Dutton MP says the following:

"The ACCCE will be at the centre of a collaborative national approach to combatting organised crime led by the AFP with oversight from the Transnational, Serious and Organised Crime (TSOC) Coordinator Deputy Commissioner Karl Kent.

It will also link closely with the Joint Anti Child Exploitation Teams across Australia, international law enforcement agencies and the Office of the e-Safety Commissioner. "

Law enforcement agencies across Australia have been successful in disrupting, preventing and investigating instances of child exploitation, but the problem is growing.

The Australian Federal Police alone received about 9,700 reports of child exploitation material in 2017, so far this year they have received more than 13,000 reports.

“In today’s world any child can be targeted in their own home by an organised network of paedophiles, it is no longer enough for agencies to combat these offences in isolation" says Minister Peter Dutton.