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A man is behind bars thanks to work by our specialist team who monitor and manage the risk posed by registered sexual offenders.
Officers had installed specialist monitoring software on the devices of Jetfire Allen as part of the Sexual Harm Prevention Order he was made a subject of following his conviction for indecent images and extreme pornography offences in February 2021.
The software allows remote monitoring of devices and detects any activity which might breach court-imposed restrictions and if the user was viewing illegal content.
The management of this activity is done by our Management of Sexual Offenders and Violent Offenders team (MOSOVO) who monitor sexual offenders in the community and manage the risk they pose to the public.
On 7 September this year the team were notified by the software that there was material Allen, 29, of Amwell Court, Waltham Abbey, had looked at that they needed to review.
They established he had viewed images of child sexual abuse, include of children as young as two, on the social media platform X.
He was arrested the same day and later charged with two counts of making indecent images of children.
At Chelmsford Crown Court on 6 November, Allen admitted the offences and was sentenced to 13 months in prison.
His existing Sexual Harm Prevention Order was extended to 10 years from the date of sentencing and he is subject to notification requirements for 10 years.
PC Craig Urch, from MOSOVO, said:
“MOSOVO is in place to ensure that registered sex offenders are not able to re-offend and put the public at risk.
“The software we were able to install on Allen’s devices is just one tool available to us to monitor a registered sex offender’s activity and act swiftly where they have broken the law or breached an order in place against them.
“In this case we were able to act on the same day the offending was identified, arrest him and put him before the court where he was left with no option but admit to what he had done.
“I know the public may be nervous knowing there may be registered sex offenders living in their communities but I hope it provides some reassurance knowing our team is there to protect them.”
