Northern Ireland police seize 100 computers in child porn crackdown

POLICE in Northern Ireland have seized more than 100 computers in a child porn crackdown following a tip-off from the FBI similar to that which enabled gardaí raid a large number of homes and business premises here last May.

Northern Ireland police seize 100 computers in child porn crackdown

PSNI detectives who searched more than 40 premises during the last two weeks also uncovered 7,000 items of software for further examination.

The carefully co-ordinated swoops are believed to have resulted from intelligence passed to the PSNI by the FBI after it broke up Landslide Productions, a Texas-based internet firm that provided links to 300 pay-per-view child porn sites.

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