Combating sexual exploitation of children on the Internet

The Global Fusion Center is an investigation and competence center that supports the search work against human traffickers worldwide through in-depth digital research. Accordingly the crimes of modern slavery and human trafficking, which include the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet, are at the focus of the investigation center.

The sexual exploitation of children on the Internet is currently spreading significantly beyond the Philippines to other countries, so that the Global Fusion Center will also be deployed there. The countries in which the center is currently promoting its investigative work are Ghana, Cambodia, Thailand (including the Gulf of Thailand), India, and the Philippines.

The center has three tasks: operational analysis, strategic analysis and training.

The operational analysis aims to produce specific law enforcement results. This can be an arrest, confiscation, loss of assets or funds acquired through criminal activity, or disruption of a criminal group. For operational analysis, the center always cooperates with national and international police units. The analysis shall:

The strategic analysis is intended to inform decision-makers at higher levels, support them in their decisions and warn them of threats at an early stage. The Centre therefore prepares information on these areas:

The third pillar for successful digitally supported investigation work against human traffickers are the education and training of investigators worldwide. The investigators to be trained come primarily from the IJM offices and countries of operation.