The Invictus Task Force Update: The Task Force is now fully staffed with a Forensic Examiner, Intelligence Analyst, Administrative Assistant, two Detectives, and a full compliment of supporting staff from our partner agencies. The Task Force has in total sixteen members with the singular focus of combatting child exploitation and human trafficking. The Task Force office space is now open, and our forensic lab is fully functional. We now have a group of subject matter experts that are proactively seeking out those that would harm children in our community, as well as the communities of partner agencies. The Task Force is regularly collaborating with our law enforcement partners across the state, and our model is being studied as a sustainable concept of operations. Our Task Force was presented at the National Internet Crimes Against Children conference in Atlanta, GA, in May of 2024, as a national model, that represents a scalable method of effectively working internet crimes against children. The investigations being conducted by the Task Force have produced tangible results, in both suspect arrests and victim identification in almost every state, to date. The Task Force has conducted 25 enforcement operations, which resulted in 34 arrests, and a total of 139 felony charges. During our investigations the Task Force has uncovered five separate instances of a juvenile victim being exploited by suspects, and the hands-on offenses had not been reported. Through the strategic use of resources that are now available within the Task Force, we have linked 307 cyber tips investigations, cutting the overall combined number of cyber tips from 568 to 261, for the four-county area of operations.
