Measure would enable trained officers to pose as children online to ensnare potential abusers seeking to exploit minors sexually
need the ability to run undercover sting operations targeting online predators, one of the country’s leading experts on investigating
Sting operations are one of several measures proposed by recently retired Garda sgt Mick Moran who was regarded as the force’s leading authority on “If I was Garda Commissioner, in the morning, I would bring in the chiefs of the computer crime and the protective services units and say: ‘right lads, set up a reserve Garda team. Get volunteers, train them up, have them work in a controlled environment, and find me Irish men who are willing to come and meet 12-year-old girls to have sex.’”One benefit of such a unit would be to take such operations out of the hands of online vigilantes.
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