CEOP
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre is the UK police agency dedicated to protecting children from sexual abuse.
Serco works in partnership with the CEOP Centre to support child protection in the UK. As part of its partnership, Serco funded the building of a state of the art Behavioural Analysis Unit (BAU) within the CEOP Centre in London, providing expert project management support which enabled the BAU to be built in just six weeks.
The BAU focuses on understanding how offenders with a sexual interest in children operate and think. It is a resource to law enforcement nationally and internationally who are investigating these types of crimes.
The qualitative information the BAU obtains is disseminated to law enforcement via a comprehensive training programme that incorporates a unique national qualification programme for child protection professionals working in this area. The results from the analysis undertaken directly influences CEOP strategy and operational policy and helps to inform the development of CEOP's ThinkuKnow education programme, which teaches parents and children about online safety.
This programme has to date reached over 3.75 million children.
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