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At ICMEC Australia, we're collaborating with stakeholders to implement a whole-system response.
We support frontline workers in combatting child sexual exploitation and abuse by leveraging technology and data-driven strategies to detect, report, prosecute, and prevent child exploitation.
For decades, the child protection sector has been working tirelessly to bring offenders of child sexual abuse to justice. This task is undoubtedly challenging. Their unrelenting commitment has led to thousands of convictions in Australia and saved countless children from harm.
We collaborate closely with our agency partners across various initiatives to enhance their access to critical information, training, and resources. While we do not provide frontline intervention, our efforts are dedicated to strengthening our partners' capacity to detect and investigate this crime effectively.
One of our key focus areas at ICMEC Australia is the financial services industry, which plays a crucial role in detecting and preventing transactions linked to Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) and trafficking.
Viewing or purchasing CSAM is a criminal offence in most countries, including Australia, and financial services organisations are obliged to detect and report related transactions under the AML/CTF Act.
Offenders usually try to disguise their illegal transactions, making it difficult for financial crime teams to detect them. Payments might be low in value, appear innocuous in their references, or be divided between multiple payment providers and banks. In Australia, 99.1% of all payment transactions are conducted digitally (ABA, 2024 https://www.ausbanking.org.au/bank-on-it-customer-trends/). This creates an immense opportunity to empower financial institutions to meet their regulatory requirements and proactively detect and prevent harm to vulnerable children.
At ICMEC Australia, we provide financial institutions with information, data, and analytics to significantly strengthen their financial crime investigative capabilities.
We also unite financial services companies to form a collective front against child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA). We are fostering industry-wide partnerships to create a collaborative response.
ICMEC Australia acknowledges Traditional Owners throughout Australia and their continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and Elders past and present.
