A recent child pornography bust by police has yet to produce hard evidence, with only one person out of 102 being arrested and four hearing charges.

As part of Operation “Regina”, two weeks ago a few hundred police officers entered 114 homes, apartments and internet cafes, confiscating 133 computers, 81 portable hard drives, 3,300 CDs and DVDs, as well as over 200 floppy disks.

It has been reported that the reason no arrests have been made is that the Wielkopolska regional prosecution in Poznan wants hard evidence, and before any more arrests are made every single one of the computers and all the data has to be analysed.

“[Each] analysis takes at least a month to prepare,” spokeswoman for the prosecution, Magdalena Mazur-Prus admits to the Rzeczpospolita daily, which breaks the story.

“It’s a necessary move, however, as evidence provided by police is not always satisfactory to lead to an arrest,” Mazur-Prus adds.

Furthermore, costs are set to soar as each piece of equipment costs between a few hundred and up to 30,000 zloty (around 7,500 euro) to analyse. (jb)