Undercover Police: Hunting Paedophiles

A specialist police officer goes undercover online in a race against time to catch a man in the UK posing a serious sexual threat to children

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.

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".