Critical questions

Question: What is your role at the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Agency (CEOP)?

Answer: Part of my work is with the behaviour analysis unit where we research child sex offenders and I offer consultancy to police investigations that are focusing on issues to do with child sexual abuse.

Question: What advice do you have for officers interviewing child sex offenders?

Answer: The first thing that we say is every single individual is different and there is no standard template that you can apply in an interview scenario. We will give officers a theoretical understating of how offenders evolve into people who are sexually interested in children. Because there are quite a number of different ways that that can happen, we try, from the evidence that they have gathered, to ascertain what is the most likely scenario in relation to a particular offender.

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