Liverpool will work alongside partners from across Europe to assess the level of risk posed by a suspect and the likelihood of that person becoming a contact offender
The University of Liverpool is part of a European consortium of child protection detectives and researchers that has been awarded more than £1million to tackle sex offenders who possess indecent images of children from the internet. The funding package of £1.1million has been provided by the Justice and Home Affairs Division of the European Commission to develop the national tool for risk assessing suspects involved with the possession and distribution of indecent images of children - known as KIRAT (the Kent Internet Risk Assessment Tool). Targeting offenders and developing victim identification KIRAT is part of a Fighting International Internet Paedophilia (FIIP) project that focuses on targeting offenders and developing victim identification. It is used to risk assess people who view indecent images of children on the Internet, helping police to assess the level of risk posed by a suspect and the likelihood of that person becoming a offender - someone who commits sexual offences against children. The EU collaborative project is led by Kent Police, working with a group of European partners - Estonian Police and Border Guard, Mossos d'Esquadra in Spain (the police force of Catalonia), Politie Rotterdam - Rijnmond (Rotterdam Police), Universitat de Barcelona , University College Dublin and the University of Liverpool. "KIRAT is a highly innovative technique and our research programme is playing a valuable role in safeguarding children by helping the police to track and bring offenders to account quickly” Kent Police has one of the largest Child Exploitation Investigation Teams in the UK.
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