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Founder, Chief Investigator & Former Head of Crimes Against Children at INTERPOL
Ret. Det. Bob Shilling is a 36-year veteran of the Seattle Police Department. He spent ten years on patrol, five of which were walking foot beats in disadvantaged areas of the city. Det. Shilling spent twenty-six years in the Detective Bureau, assigned to the Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Unit. He spent eighteen of those years as the lead detective in the Sex and Kidnapping Offender Detail. Det. Shilling is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.
In 2000, the INTERPOL Secretary-General appointed Det. Shilling to the INTERPOL Specialist's Group on Crimes Against Children. During his thirteen-year tenure, Det. Shilling chaired the Major Crimes Against Children and the Sex Offender Management theme groups. In 2009, Det. Shilling was elected as the chair of the specialist's group by the 190 INTERPOL member countries.
In 2013, Det. Shilling was recruited and seconded to INTERPOL Headquarters in Lyon, France, for three years as the Head of Crimes against Children. He was responsible for the International Child Sexual Exploitation Database (ICSE), which contains child sexual abuse images from all over the world. These images are submitted by INTERPOL member countries. Det. Shilling’s team and network of investigators were responsible for identifying and rescuing victims shown in the images. By the end of his three-year secondment, Det. Shilling’s team and network of investigators had physically rescued 5,420 victims of sexual abuse from “images” in the ICSE database. There were more victims rescued in three years than had been rescued in the previous 8 years combined.
Det. Shilling was the recipient of the 2014 International Council of Jurists Awards, presented in London by the President of the International Court and the former Prime Minister of Jordan. The award was for his lifetime achievements in protecting the rights of children. Det. Shilling was the first law enforcement officer ever to receive this award.
In 2015, Det. Shilling was honored at Facebook Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, with the “Wired Cop” Award for his lifetime achievements in protecting children online.
In October 2017, Det. Shilling received the “Distinguished Contribution Award” from the Association for the Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Abuse for his “notable contributions to the field of sexual abuse.”
In 2023, Det. Shilling was presented with the first-ever “Champion Award” for his lifetime achievements in protecting children. This award was presented at an international conference on Crimes Against Children in Dallas, Texas.
Det. Shilling is a co-founder of the Brave Movement.