Interpol pokes Youtube
STRESSED COPPERS are calling up social networking sites in a bid to help them solve crimes.
Interpol is using Youtube to run footage of crimes in a hope that people will be able to help them track the criminals.
Dimitrios Souxes, a criminal intelligence officer based at the agency's Lyon headquarters said that such sites are successful. Police have to follow developments otherwise they will be overcome and we will be outdated.
So far Interpol has already nabbed two prolific paedophiles after unprecented public appeals netted hundreds of tip-offs. The site has video clips of Rwandan war criminals on Facebook, Myspace and Youtube.
Interpol secretary general Ronald Noble said the agency needed to find more ways to harness the Internet. Noble added that people use the Internet to find former classmates or individuals with similar interests. There is no reason why law enforcement should not avail itself of this same resource.
He said that websites could be used to report sightings and track fugitive movements, to compare photographs of wanted persons, and upload videos.
Noble added that there was an unavoidable risk of criminals getting a heads-up on the shared public information, but this was outweighed by the potential benefits. µ
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AFP
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As opposed to us in Australia, where if you post a video to help capture a criminal the police come around to YOUR house to arrest, brutalise and charge you with child abuse, even though the posting of the video helped track down the abuser.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a77_1228162261

Oh yes, of you are in Australia and email or post a link to the video in qestion you can be charged with child abuse apparantly.