Officers in the LaVista, Nebraska, Police Department are taking their duties very seriously. The officers in the Internet Crimes Against Children Unit are getting an education in pre-teen culture in order to more effectively pose as young girls in chatrooms and social networking sites in order to catch sexual predators.
They call their education “Hannah Montana School,” and they keep up-to-date on pre-teen pop-culture like the Jonas Brothers, Twilight, and all text-messaging lingo. Basically, these officers are learning to think and act like a pre-teen online so that they can appear more authentic in their investigations.
Officers in the unit have already made numerous arrests, including 6 in the last couple of weeks.
Source: http://www.omaha.com/article/20090727/NEWS01/707279966
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