COPS TO PERVS: WE'RE COMING TO GET YOU..DETECTIVES last night declared war on Scotland's secret paedophiles warning, "We're coming to get you." For the first time specialist police teams using high-tech equipment will hunt out perverts rather than wait and react to child sex crimes that have already happened. Unveiling Operation Alba, assistant chief constable Assistant Chief Constable (ACC) is the third highest rank in all British territorial police forces (except the Metropolitan Police and City of London Police, in which the equivalent rank is Commander), as well as the British Transport Police and Ministry of Defence Police. Iain Livingstone of Lothian and Borders Police Lothian and Borders Police is the police force for the Scottish council areas of the City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, Scottish Borders and West Lothian. The force's headquarters are in Fettes Avenue, Edinburgh. said: "In the past what typically happens is that, for example, a child goes missing and when we find them we may also find indecent pictures and then start to investigate that. What will happen with Operation Alba is that we will start to use technology to identify these individuals." The operation - which has no time limit - brings together Scotland's eight police forces, the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency The Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA) is a national police agency in Scotland responsible for disrupting and dismantling serious organised crime groups; by taking the profit out of such crime and reducing the demand for such products. , Crown Office and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), formed in April 2006, is a UK cross agency and cross business department of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, which is tasked to work both nationally and internationally to bring online child sex offenders to the UK . CAPTION(S): WARNING Livingstone |
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