Thursday, October 01, 2009

Polish police detain 57 in child porn case

From: M&C
Fifty-seven people were detained in Poland on suspicion of distributing child pornography on the internet, the Polish Press Agency PAP reported Wednesday.

Polish officials followed a tip-off from police in Wiesbaden, in south-western Germany, to track down the suspects by tracing the IP addresses on their computers.

The suspects were detained after a country-wide sweep across 16 districts that secured 158 hard discs and nearly 6,000 CDs and DVDs.

Police said there could be more arrests.

In six previous child pornography sweeps this year, operations under the codenames: Present, Irena, Cytrus, Simone 3, Typhon, and Karnawal, 322 people were detained.

Police detained 330 suspects in 2008.