The mission of the new hampshire internet crimes against children (ICAC) task force is to identify, investigate, and arrest criminals who use digital technologies to exploit children for personal or…

The mission of the new hampshire internet crimes against children (ICAC) task force is to identify, investigate, and arrest criminals who use digital technologies to exploit children for personal or commercial gain. Through this award, the task force will conduct the following activities: (1) reactive investigations designed to prevent the manufacturing and distribution of child sexual abuse images; (2) proactive undercover investigations to monitor and infiltrate social networking sites and online chat rooms where a suspect poses a credible threat to children in cases such as: sexual solicitation, kidnapping, extortion, terrorizing, or any act which by its nature endangers a juvenile; (3) cybertip investigations in cases such as: child abuse and child neglect investigations as well as reports of missing children, human trafficking and child prostitution; (4) proactive and reactive investigations into online merchants which purport to provide or facilitate services that exploit or endanger children; (5) providing technical and digital forensic assistance to the NH state polices child abduction response team; (6) provide assistance to prosecutorial efforts on the state and federal level through training and support; and (7) provide assistance to any law enforcement agency where ICAC technical and practical law enforcement expertise may facilitate a resolution to a criminal investigation.