Paedophile Swoop Nets 13-year-old
News The dawn raids, dubbed Operation Appal, have resulted in 24 successful arrests to date, with one suspect aged just 13. Operation Appal is the third investigation launched by the Greater Manchester police force into the distribution of obscene...
[March 28, 2001, 8:20]
13-year-old Put On Register For Internet Paedophilia
News A dawn raid in March dubbed Operation Appal resulted in the immediate arrest of the teenager, after 326 indecent images were found on the hard drive of his PC. Operation Appal was the third investigation launched by the Greater Manchester police...
[May 15, 2001, 17:07]
Encryption Foils Internet Child Porn Prosecutions
News Unsuccessful British efforts to decipher the 1,200 indecent images traded by the Wonderland club are contrasted by the more recent success of Operation Appal, the largest proactive investigation ever undertaken in the UK to crack down on Internet...
[August 3, 2001, 14:10]
High Tech Crime Chief Calls For New Internet Laws
News The success of Operation Appal, however, additionally reveals the challenge facing the NHTCU in launching national proactive investigations into organised crime using IT. Whilst we were online investigating Operation Appal, 22,000 IRC channels were...
[April 18, 2001, 14:21]
Huge Raid On Alleged Net Paedophiles
News The investigation, dubbed Operation Appal, tracked down 45 men believed to be involved in the possession and distribution of illegal child pornography. On 2 September 1998 an international police operation dubbed Operation Cathedral involving 12...
[March 27, 2001, 10:50]
Fourteen Arrested After Internet Child Porn Investigation
News The investigation, dubbed Operation Appal, followed a three-month investigation by Greater Manchester police. The operation, which was code-named "Barcela", followed a seven-month investigation involving the Obscene Publications and Internet Unit...
[October 30, 2001, 15:22]
Eighty People Caught In Net Paedophile Ring
News In Operation Appal, the police broke through the international nature of the Web through filtering software, and focused only on UK-based activity. In this weekend's Spanish operation, 54 distribution points were discovered, 21 of which were in...
[April 23, 2001, 16:35]
News Burst: Huge Raid On Alleged Net Paedophiles
News The investigation, dubbed Operation Appal, tracked down 45 men believed to be involved in the possession and distribution of illegal child pornography. A simultaneous raid of 45 suspected Net paedophile homes has been carried out early Tuesday...
[March 27, 2001, 9:41]
