Operation Snapshot Essay

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Operation Snapshot
Child pornography is a photographic, film, video or any other visual representation, that shows a person who is or is depicted as being under the age of eighteen years and is engaged in or is depicted as engaged in explicit sexual activity (Criminal Code, 2018). Society does not view this type of offence lightly. People care for the safety of their children and youth. To solve those crimes, police agencies have different units that deal with matters of this sort, but because it is a challenging crime to tackle, a nationwide operation called Operation Snapshot was created. Operation Snapshot involved 30 multi-agency police investigations in 15 different communities in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nunavut and the Northwest …show more content…

In the mentioned previous case, the officers surveilled the house and discovered after about 5 days that the owner of the house has contact with children, which immediately gave them grounds and a reason to prepare a search warrant (Alison Crawford, 2014). Surveillance can be done by sitting stationary and observing a specific place or person, or it can be done through cameras doing it for the investigator. The benefits of surveillance are that it gives the investigators real, visual, usually recorded evidence that can help build grounds, give evidence, and be used in …show more content…

One unit that it involved is ICE. ICE units investigate sexual exploitation of children on the Internet (ALERT , 2018). ICE investigates any computer-related offences concerning child sexual abuse, child luring over the Internet, voyeurism involving victims under the age of 18, and child sex trade (ALERT , 2018). The RCMP ICE Unit and the Integrated ICE Unit participated in a child pornography investigation called Operation Snapshot II, with the goal to identify and rescue child victims of sexual exploitation, and identify and charge offenders who possess, distribute or collect child sexual exploitation material online (Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 2016). Project Snapshot III, involved ICE investigative Units from across Canada (Regina Police Service,

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