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<p>Departmental spend on commissioning the Child Abuse Image Database (CAID) for the
first year is £1,473,179, which is being recharged to police forces. It is estimated
that CAID will save the police £7.474 million by March 2017 by speeding up police
processes.<br><br>The project has been developed using data from Interpol and, where
appropriate, this information will be included in the initial database load for CAID.<br><br>The
CAID system will be available to all police forces in the UK and National Crime Agency
– Child Exploitation and Online Protection (NCA-CEOP) Command via the police secure
network. All forces will be accredited to access this data supported by the Home Office
project team and security advisers. The CAID system allows the use of forces’ existing
image grading and hashing software. <br><br>Any additional software needed to access
CAID and to upload new material from the forces/NCA-CEOP Command to the database is
provided as part of the central project at no cost to the forces. <br><br>Each force
is responsible for its own set-up costs to establish the connectivity of their force
High Tech Crime Unit or Grading Unit in an <br>enhanced, secure way to the police
secure network that already exists in their forces.<br><br>It is expected that the
CAID will cost forces approximately £20,000 per year in service costs (which are used
to maintain and improve the database). This cost has been agreed with the National
Policing lead for Child Protection and Abuse Investigation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
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