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   Keith Bristow said police would have to focus on pursuing those   
   who posed most risk but that others would face a "range of   
   interventions".   
      
   Some 660 arrests were made during a recent operation targeting   
   people who had accessed child abuse images online.   
      
   However, the BBC understands that as many as 20,000-30,000   
   individuals were identified during that investigation.   
      
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   We have been pretending as every other nation in the world is   
   currently pretending that they're on top of this problem online -   
    they are not."”   
      
   Donald Findlater   
   Lucy Faith Foundation   
   The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) -   
   part of the NCA - has estimated that 50,000 people in the UK are   
   involved in downloading and sharing images of child abuse.   
      
   Top priority   
   NCA director general Mr Bristow said it was "not realistic" to   
   expect all of them to face prosecution.   
      
   "Our responsibility is to focus on the greatest risk and tackle   
   those people," he said.   
      
   But Jim Gamble, who resigned as head of Ceop in 2010, said most   
   of those who viewed images would go on to commit a "contact   
   offence" against children and should be pursued.   
      
   The NCA said in July that the 660 arrests made as part of   
   Operation Notarise included teachers, medical staff, former   
   police officers, a social services worker and a scout leader.   
      
   Some of the suspected paedophiles had terabytes - equivalent to   
   1,000GB - worth of data on their hard drives or storage devices.   
      
   'Horrible criminality'   
   Mr Bristow said every image would be assessed, describing it as   
   "high volume" work that had to be done at pace.   
      
   "If there are 50,000 people involved in this particularly   
   horrible type of criminality, I don't believe all 50,000 will   
   end up in the criminal justice system," he said at a briefing   
   for journalists.   
      
   "It's uncomfortable but we're going to work through it in a   
   logical way, target the most risky first."   
      
   He said there would be a "range of interventions" which for some   
   of the offenders could fall short of them "standing in a court".   
      
   Mr Bristow drew a distinction between "contact abusers" who may   
   have been involved in physical abuse, and those who shared   
   images.   
      
   Society would have to have "deeply uncomfortable conversations"   
   about the scale of child abuse and how to respond to it, Mr   
   Bristow added.   
      
   'Would be my priority'   
   But Mr Gamble said: "Are we going to say because there's too   
   many we can't do it?   
      
   "It's about how you prioritise the resources that you allocate   
   to these problems.   
      
   "And for me, protecting children from those people who look at   
   images... is key and would be at the top of my priority list."   
      
   Donald Findlater, from child protection charity the Lucy   
   Faithfull Foundation, said the NCA's "candour" was "desperately   
   important".   
      
   But he said police needed to "make a judgement" and "deploy   
   their resources to go for those who are most directly dangerous   
   to children and are most actively sharing online".   
      
   "There is a whole raft of additional people behaving badly   
   online who need to get some kind of a response," he told BBC   
   News.   
      
   "I think it's important that their behaviour is brought out into   
   the open.   
      
   "We have been pretending as every other nation in the world is   
   currently pretending that they're on top of this problem online -   
    they are not."   
      
   Last week Mr Bristow apologised after Ceop sat on information it   
   had about 2,000 British paedophiles for more than a year.   
      
   Information on the men was sent to UK authorities by Toronto   
   Police in July 2012, as part of an international investigation,   
   Operation Spade, into suspected paedophiles.   
      
   But it was not passed on to police forces until more than 12   
   months later in November 2013.   
      
   http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29692685   
      
          
      
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