Thursday, 10 February 2022

Detective Senior Constable Jamin Middleton

Ms MAXWELL (Northern Victoria) (10:15): I pay tribute today to Detective Senior Constable Jamin Middleton, born and bred in Mildura, who has recently been awarded the 2021 Mick Miller Regional Investigator of the Year award. Senior Constable Middleton’s work has focused on how child sex offenders share child abuse material overseas, and he utilised IT methods to examine bank accounts and domain purchases to pursue offenders. This complex work is vital to protecting vulnerable children against the international trade of child abuse material. It is not unusual for offenders to be found with hundreds of thousands of files of child abuse. At the other end of this abhorrent material are suffering, violated, exploited children. Offenders use technology to commit these crimes and then perpetuate further child abuse by sharing this vile material online.

This is a very prestigious award within Victoria Police. In fact the first recipient was another great regional investigator, Senior Sergeant Ron Iddles, awarded for his work investigating almost 250 homicides and solving about 95 per cent of them. I congratulate Senior Constable Middleton and thank him and our sexual offences and child abuse investigation teams for their important work.