Police have launched an intensive training programme to teach their top child porn fighters how to catch those in South Africa who have helped place more than a million explicit "kiddy" pornographic images on to the Internet.
The training, aimed at ending the demand for an estimated 200 new child pornographic pictures posted daily, is part of an international campaign by the world's policing authorities to combat child pornography.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) website said that since January more than a million child pornographic images had been placed on the Net.
Now, armed with the latest hi-tech computer equipment, police from the Family Violence, Child Abuse and Sexual Offences Unit and other SAPS investigators are closing in on the distributors, buyers and viewers of child pornography.
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'We want child pornographers to know that they will never get away with this crime' With some of the best child protection laws in the world, a total of 60 South African detectives are to begin their three-week training programme on Tuesday to learn how to fight child porn.
The programme will see 400 police officers trained in protecting South Africa's children from the likes of convicted Cape Town "Father Christmas" paedophile, James McNeil, 73, and Durban child pornographer, Dean Foster, 42, a former teacher and ex-Scoutmaster.
Both men were found guilty of being in possession of child pornography, as well as indecent assault. Foster is currently undergoing chemical castration.
The training programme comes less than two months after police swooped on a Russian couple in Durban and seized material allegedly containing pornographic images of their own children. They are believed to be part of an international paedophilia network and alleged to have performed sexual acts on two of their four children aged six, four, 14 months and the youngest, who was only two days old at the time.
'These images increase by more that 200 a day worldwide'
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