§ Mr. WrayTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on Operation Landmark and what resources are being put into it. [72524]
§ Mr. DenhamOperation Landmark was an international police operation led by the National Crime Squad to combat paedophile activity on the Internet, focusing on open source data in newsgroups hosted by a British-based Internet Service Provider in November 2001.
76Wnumber of offences and eight times the illegal income, as those who did not test positive. They also reported twice as many arrests in the last twelve months.
Findings reported in "Arrest Referral: Emerging Findings from the National Monitoring and Evaluation Programme" (Home Office: Sondhi, O'Shea, Williams, 2002) were used to estimate that the total spend on illegal drugs by those seen by Arrest Referral workers as around £550 million (or around £11,000 for an individual), although not all of this figure will be directly attributable to crime. The NEW-ADAM research has also found that in the year 1999–2000, on average arrestees reported generating just over £5,000 in illegal income, the most common source of which was property crime.