'Due to the growth nationally… assistance from other jurisdictions can no longer be provided on the same basis.' Public outreachĪlong with investigations, the new unit will be doing public outreach and education, says McGregor. 'G Division has historically relied on expertise available within the RCMP in southern jurisdictions for assistance in investigating cases of child pornography in the N.W.T.,' she said. Online exploitation is also increasing across the whole country, says Marie-Ève Duperré with the territorial government's Justice Department.

'The increased use of social media in the communities, online texting, opening up of the bandwidth in communities is just creating that social media environment… it's creating that environment for increased online sexual exploitation.' McGregor wasn't able to say by how much investigations into online predation have increased in the territory, but he said it's been noticeable. The ICE team will include two RCMP investigators based in Yellowknife and one civilian computer analyst, whose location has yet to be finalized. quite often we have to go outside the divisions for expertise in the technology area, in terms of analyzing devices.' 'As you can imagine, they're very complex investigations and.

'We had seen an increase in this type of activity throughout the North,' said Staff Sgt.

RCMP are expanding their ability to investigate online child sexual exploitation in the Northwest Territories, which they say has seen a marked increase.Ī new three-member Internet Child Exploitation team (ICE) will be established this year, following a $429,000 funding announcement from the territorial government this week.

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