The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

DoD is currently revising the DoD trafficking in persons training modules to add moreinformation about child soldiers to make members aware of the Optional Protocol to the UnitedNations Convention on the Rights of the Child in the involvement of children in armed conflict.3. U.S. Postal Inspection Service EffortsPostal Inspectors, since the enactment of the Sexual Exploitation of Children Act of 1977, haveaggressively pursued and brought to justice over 5,200 child pornographers who relied upon themail to traffic in this illegal material and/or sexually exploit a child. Postal Inspectorsspecializing in child exploitation investigations are in constant demand to provide their guidanceand assistance to law enforcement agencies throughout the United States and abroad. Since1997, Postal Inspectors have arrested over 2,700 offenders; 931 of those offenders were childmolesters who were directly responsible for the sexual abuse of a child.The Postal Inspection Service has held a position at the National Center for Missing & ExploitedChildren (NCMEC), a private, nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization, for approximately 5 years. Theinspector is responsible for handling all evidence submissions by law enforcement agenciesunder NCMEC’s Child Victim Identification Program (CVIP); coordinating all activities relatedto the Deliver Me Home program; serving as the primary point of contact between NCMEC andpostal inspectors throughout the country; and performing other duties as assigned. In CVIP, theinspector assigned to NCMEC receives and coordinates the thousands of requests by lawenforcement for a review of images for known and identified victims. In the past five months,the inspector assigned to NCMEC has processed more than 1,250 requests for review of images,destroyed 1,105 disks containing child pornography, and returned 104 disks to submitting lawenforcement. Since October 1, 2004, the USPSIS representative has received, logged, andreturned in excess of 13,900 separate submissions from law enforcement agencies. CVIP’spolicy of not returning submissions unless specifically requested by the submitting agency is stillin effect.a. Deliver Me Home ProgramDeliver Me Home is a joint program of NCMEC, the Postal Inspection Service, and the UnitedStates Postal Service. Postal Inspectors coordinate activities with NCMEC and Postal Servicegroups to share resources in locating abducted or missing children. Since the program began inSeptember 2004, a total of 54 children have been located. Integral to the Deliver Me Homeprogram are the missing children flyers Postal Inspectors dispatch to targeted ZIP Codes to alertcommunities and collect information about a missing or abducted child. Postal Inspectors havedistributed 750,000 flyers. Deliver Me Home was enhanced in FY 2007 by the lobby posterprogram, which allowed managers at NCMEC’s Missing Children’s Division to request displaysof Missing and Abducted Children posters in the lobbies of all Post Offices within a givengeographic area. More than 100 posters have been distributed since the program’s inspection inAugust 2007.ADVO, a leading marketing services company that offers newspaper-delivered promotions,direct mail, coupons, and other services, operates “Have You Seen Me?” which contains picturesof missing children, which are delivered regularly to more than 90% of American homes as part87