The number of children rescued from sexual abuse has doubled in a year.
Some 131 children were saved from the clutches of organised paedophile rings in one of the biggest crackdowns on child abuse in recent years.
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) said it had found evidence to lead to the arrest of 297 suspected paedophiles.
CEOP, set up in 2006 to monitor suspected sex offenders, particularly on the Internet, said it had smashed six paedophile rings which had processed millions of images of child abuse in the last year alone.
"I hope offenders look hard at these figures because they show not just how we at CEOP are working, but are the culmination of how far law enforcement and the child protection community has come," CEOP Chief Executive Jim Gamble said in a statement.
"They are the results of truly collaborative action. By us all working together 131 children are now safeguarded from some of the worst abuse imaginable - that is true impact."
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