Grim Work for Police to Catch Paedophiles ; Last Night's Television Su Carroll Sees to Catch a Paedophile On Itv1

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IT WAS a controversial decision for Metropolitan Police to decide, in 2005, to go online and pose as young girls to get evidence of adult males grooming them for sex. But if it takes a thief to catch a thief, it takes cunning and nerve to catch a paedophile.

ITV has been given unprecedented access to Scotland Yard's Paedophile Unit over an 18-month period. Former police officer Mark Williams-Thomas shadowed the detectives as they went undercover in Internet chat rooms.

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Grim Work for Police to Catch Paedophiles ; Last Night's Television Su Carroll Sees to Catch a Paedophile On Itv1

What he found was incredibly disturbing and very uncomfortable to watch. Many outwardly respectable men...

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