According to the internal analysis, various police units “have had to put all online child-sex cases on hold for several years due to local priorities and were struggling to deal with the backlog of reports”.
It said hardly any pro-active online research had been carried out at federal or cantonal level for years – “if at all”.
On average, only 15% of the individual Swiss police forces were dealing with paedo-sexual cybercrime, the paper said, quoting the government.
For its part, Fedpol told the SonntagsZeitung that the results referred to the period 2015-2017 and were no longer up to date.
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Don’t cave in to ‘sextortion’ threats online, say authorities
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Cases of ‘sextortion’ involving threats of releasing alleged compromising videos are growing online, warns an official Swiss body.
Switzerland needs more police, says head of coordination body
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Switzerland needs 2,000 more police and a national police reserve, says Pierre Maudet, who heads the conference of cantonal police departments.
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There are currently 95 people on a teaching black list in Switzerland, most of them primary school teachers, banned for offences of a sexual nature.
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The House of Representatives on Wednesday followed the Senate in allowing exemptions in lighter cases. These include, for example, selling a pornographic magazine to a minor or teenagers sharing videos with child pornography. A sticking point between the chambers was also whether sexual relations between minors should be specifically mentioned as a general exception. It…
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