Channel 4 - Undercover Police Hunting Paedophiles (2021)

Follows officers as they assume new identities online and are given the task of engaging with people who have demonstrated a sexual interest in children. Highly disturbing content

Chapter 1

An undercover officer pretends to be a 47-year-old paedophile, claiming he enjoys sexually abusing his 10-year-old daughter and is looking for other men who would like to join him.

Chapter 2

Following a middle-aged male undercover officer as he assumes a new identity as a 13-year-old girl from Essex and begins engaging online with people who have demonstrated a sexual interest in children. Within minutes of creating an account on a social media site for teenagers, 'Keira' is bombarded with highly sexualised messages from other users, many of whom are adult men.

Chapter 3

Following an officer who assumes a new identity as Oli, a gay 14-year-old boy from Bedfordshire seeking to explore his newfound sexuality on social media platforms. Before long he is contacted by a number of adult men, some of whom continue engaging with him even when he reveals to them that he is a child. As the conversations quickly turn sexual, the team behind the undercover officer race to identify the app users who are trying to arrange to sexually abuse 'Oli'.

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