The Hague – The “Victim Identification Taskforce” (VIDTF), based at the Europol headquarters in The Hague, have been busy for two weeks of intensive work. It is composed by 12 experts from EU member states, third countries (with which it was signed an operating agreement), and Interpol. They have joined forces to identify child victims of exploitation and sexual abuse. The meeting gathered especially experts from Italy, Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the UK, who worked with their counterparts from the Australian AFP, the Canadian taskforce Argos, and also with the FBI and ICE US, in an collaboration effort of historic proportion. It was declared by Roberto Di Legami, director of the Postal Police Service and Communications “Even the State Police could not fail to support and be part of this important Task Force; since it have been always engaged in frontline in the fight against these heinous trafficking through the Postal and Communications Police”. (9Colonne)
