PROTEGELES is a NGO working on Child Protection on the ICT.  Since 2001 it has been operating as a hotline. In the first month of operation (Oct. 2001) the PROTEGELES’ Hotline against Child Pornography received 529 reports on alleged child pornography content.  One year later, it was registering more than 900 reports and it reached a peak of 1,925 reports in July 2004.  During first months of 2007, we received between 1,300 and 1,500 reports per month. 
Between 2001 and 2007, Protegeles has received more than  80,000 reports.  After analyzing their content, sufficient proof of crime was found in more than 8,000 pages and communities from all around the world.  In these cases, the exact placement of these pages was communicated to the different police units dedicated to combating child pornography around the globe and, fundamentally to the Spanish Technology Investigation Squad, Brigada de Investigación Tecnológica –BIT and to the Guardia Civil Group of Cybercrime (Grupo de Delitos Telemáticos).
For instance, in Germany the operation against child pornography, Operation Marcy, involved more than 1500 police officers, leaded to hundreds of police raids and resulted in more than 745 confiscated computers.  The operation spread to many countries and around 26.500 people were involved.
Later on, the same modus operandi has succeeded many other police operations, the most important one in Jalisco, Mexico, in 2007.