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<p>The Child Abuse Image Database (CAID) was launched in December 2014 and supersedes
the interim National Hash Set Database. All of the hashes relating to Indecent Images
of Children from the interim National Hash Set Database managed by Cheshire Constabulary
were added to CAID along with hash sets held by other UK law enforcement agencies.</p><p>CAID
contains over four million images. All these images appearing on CAID have an indicative
categorisation based on police force grading or ‘votes’. Of these images, at present,
fewer than 600,000 have been categorised as having a “trusted grade”. This “trusted
grade” is achieved once the image has received three independent, undisputed votes
by police forces encountering them. These are therefore the images which have been
most reliably assessed as being Indecent Images of Children.</p><p>The focus this
year has been to ensure that all police forces and the National Crime Agency are connected
to CAID by the end of this year.</p>
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