The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has urged the Government to consider forcing internet service providers (ISP) to block access by young people to online pornography.

The outgoing chief of Britain’s child protection agency and the host of US TV show 'America’s Most Wanted' posed as paedophiles to investigate the sex trafficking of Cambodian youngsters.

AN on-the-run Scottish paedophile was arrested in Dublin city centre yesterday.

An on-the-run Scottish paedophile was arrested today in Dublin.

FACEBOOK has joined forces with a British child protection agency to create a “panic button” application on its site, it was announced yesterday, as the social networking giant finally gave in to calls to do more to protect youngsters online.

Facebook today responded to calls to step up online security by announcing a raft of new measures to “transform social networking safety”.

FACEBOOK has not passed a single complaint about suspected paedophiles grooming vulnerable child users to police in Britain, it was claimed yesterday.

SOCIAL networking sites like Facebook and MySpace have been criticised for failing to provide a help button for children who are targets for bullying or sexual grooming.

British police appealed today for internet users worldwide to spread a new video aimed at pricking the conscience of the key witness who knows what happened to Madeleine McCann.

BRITISH police appealed yesterday for internet users worldwide to spread a new video aimed at pricking the conscience of the key witness who knows what happened to Madeleine McCann.

The North's new chief constable has vowed to build on the work of the man he will succeed, Hugh Orde.

Leicestershire police chief Matt Baggott was tonight appointed as the new Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

The successor to the North's police chief Hugh Orde will be decided today as four high-ranking candidates face a rigorous interview process in Belfast.

Two British men were arrested in Thailand today as part of a child abuse investigation.

Chilling interviews with convicted paedophiles could hold the key to protecting millions of children from abuse.

A FUGITIVE paedophile will appear in the High Court today to face extradition back to Britain.

The Gardaí and the PSNI have confirmed that three Irish people were arrested in connection with the internet paedophile network broken up by the British police.

Police have smashed a global internet paedophile ring with more than 700 suspects worldwide, a British law enforcement agency said today.

A former senior PSNI officer is causing controversy in Britain today for saying that not everyone who looks at child pornography should be jailed.

POLICE officers worldwide are to patrol the virtual world of internet chat rooms as part of a massive international effort to tackle paedophiles operating on the web, the National Crime Squad in Britain announced yesterday.

An international crackdown on suspected paedophiles has rescued more than 100 children in the UK from child abuse, police revealed today.

FIFTY police officers have been arrested as part of an investigation into internet paedophiles.