Task Force Argos: The police who rescue children from online sexual exploitation

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Task Force Argos is a world renowned branch of the Queensland Police Service, responsible for the investigation of online child exploitation and abuse.

Our guests for this episode are Jon Rouse APM and Akhim Dev. Rouse was one of the founding members of the Argos Task Force, and Dev is a documentary film maker, whose film and podcast "The Children in the Pictures" featured the work of the Rouse's team.

Next episode will feature Rouse and Dev answering our listeners' questions, but on this episode, we learn more about the most common threats to young people online today.

Akhim Dev's documentary "The Children in the Pictures" can be viewed on SBS On Demand. His podcast of the same name is also available wherever you listen to your podcasts.

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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram

Guests: Jon Rouse APM & Akhim Dev

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0:00.0	We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,
0:04.3	and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.
0:07.4	Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.
0:10.3	Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,
0:15.2	our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in
0:19.9	Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.
0:26.0	This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests.
0:29.0	So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will
0:33.8	contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian
0:38.3	true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
0:41.9	listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people.
0:47.0	The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.
0:59.4	They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.
1:07.0	I don't think I hesitate really. It was a big leap of course, but I think I didn't really realize what I was doing,
1:30.0	going and really move on the other side of a planet.
1:36.0	Any weapon, any tool that is available, I'm gonna use it. That's Adele Desir. She's a world leader when it comes to analyzing child sexual exploitation material and identifying the victims and offenders involved.
2:02.0	In 2016, Adele left her native France where she was a criminal intelligence officer with
2:07.2	Interpol to join Australia's Argos Task Force, because it's the best in the world.
2:13.1	You'll hear Adele mentioned a lot in this episode of Australian True Crime,
2:16.9	because our guests today both hold her in very high esteem.
2:20.7	They are John Rouse, who is one of the founding members of the Argos Task Force, and filmmaker and journalist
2:26.8	Akem Dev who made the excellent documentary The Children in the Pictures about the work of the Argos team who joins us again.
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