Police consider using decoy group data

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Police consider using decoy group data

The police are now examining, in consultation with the prosecution, whether and how data collected by so-called decoy groups about alleged child molesters can be used. A police officer says there is reason to be concerned about the activities of such groups. A group of five young people attacked a man in his fifties in Akranes in December. They mistook their identities, pretended to be a fourteen-year-old girl who offered the man sex and arrange…