British police have arrested 660 people in a massive six-month operation against accessing child abuse images online, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed.
The operation saw 45 police forces involved, 833 properties searched and nearly 10,000 computer hard drives examined.
Teachers, doctors and social care workers were among those arrested, on charges ranging from possessing indecent images of children to serious sexual assault.
Of those arrested, 39 had been convicted of sexual offences previously, but most had not attracted attention from the police.
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