The General Inspectorate of the Romanian Police (GIRP) and its project partners, The Norwegian National Police Directorate (NNPD) and Interpol in Lyon, France, join forces in fighting internet child pornography cases, by prevention and proper investigation. Mr. Tor Jervell Backe- Hansen, head of the Department for International Relations in the Norwegian National Police Directorate, present at the launching, highlighted that it is very important that internet child pornography is not a phenomenon in either of the two countries. However, child pornography has excessively grown internationally and, against this background, prevention of the occurrence of such cases should be a major concern and all efforts to keep the present state of things under control are not too big.
The Romanian Police will take part in training courses on prevention and victim identification, given by Norwegian and French specialists; Romanian police officers will also benefit from study visists to Norway and to France to get trained in using the ICAID (Internet Child Abuse Image Database), which identifies similar or connected images of the same crime or of the same place.
Another important part of the project is raising public awareness with a view to concrete methods of preventing and fighting child pornography cases. In this respect, GIRP - in cooperation with a Romanian NGO – will create a hotline and a helpline to assist both children and parents/ adults who want to get infirmation on prevention methods or to report abuses.