Twenty eight suspects have been arrested in a major operation into online grooming of children. Cheshire Police took action after a 400 per cent increase in the last four years in online viewing of indecent images of children.
Forty addresses were raided across the county last month and a special police team has been quadrupled in size to deal with the huge spike in crimes. Boredom during the COVID pandemic has been identified as a reason for the increase in offences.
Cheshire Constabulary's Online Child Abuse Investigation Team (OCAIT) supported by officers from other areas of the Constabulary, executed multiple warrants every day in April to arrest suspected prolific offenders across the county.
