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An international police has shut down the largest Internet paedophile ring ever discovered. Police officers 60 children in Britain and a further 170 children in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US. The team was by Britain's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). The operation leader, UK police Peter Davies, said: "In the UK 60 children have been safeguarded and 121 offenders of which there have been 33 convictions. Investigations across the world ." The arrests have come after three years of surveillance and monitoring of paedophiles. Mr Davies said the network was in the Netherlands and had 70,000 .

The head of Europol Rob Wainright called the a “spectacular international police ”. He had a message for paedophiles: "If you think you can use the Internet to abuse children you are ," he said. He added: "We will not these offenders to carry on committing these awful against young children. We will not rest until we have identified every offender that has been in this network and others that might be operating on the Internet." The police uncovered the ring by using officers to infiltrate the to identify the most active members. One of the breakthroughs was in 2008 when two British men were caught images in Thailand.