Online child exploitation

PS works with its partners to implement the National Strategy to Protect Children from Sexual Exploitation on the Internet. This includes collaboration with the RCMP through its National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre. The Strategy is supported by some of the most comprehensive child protection legislation in the world.

About the Strategy

The Strategy includes three objectives:

• Enhance law enforcement capacity
  Provide the RCMP with the necessary resources and tools, including the G8 database project, to achieve its desired mandate and provide leadership within the Canadian policing community.
• Provide for public education and reporting
  Includes the national expansion and ongoing operations of Cybertip.ca as the national public reporting centre for complaints of child sexual exploitation on the Internet.
• Forge partnerships with industry and non-governmental organizations
  All government partners will reach out to stakeholders to develop public education and awareness initiatives, and promote crime prevention.

Cybertip.ca

Cybertip.ca is a national website and phone line that allows the public to report instances of online child exploitation such as child pornography and Internet luring. Cybertip.ca receives and analyzes the tips and refers leads to the appropriate enforcement authorities.

Launched as a pilot project in Manitoba in 2002 by Canadian Centre for Child Protection, the project was expanded into a national initiative in 2005 thanks to funding from a wide variety of partners, both public and private. As of March 31, 2007, there were:

• 18.2 million hits
• 18,312 total reports
• 13,837 reports of child pornography
• 1,117 reports of luring (children enticed to meet a stranger)