How many tips of csam did the nca get in 2024
Executive summary
No reliable, directly cited figure for how many tips of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) received in 2024 can be found among the provided sources; the reporting set instead offers U.S. CyberTipline totals, evidence of surging AI‑related reports, and NCA commentary on wider criminal threats without a specific CSAM tip count for 2024 [1] [2] [3] [4]. This analysis lays out what the sources do say, clarifies gaps, and flags how legislative and platform reporting changes in 2024 complicate cross‑jurisdictional comparisons [5] [2].
1. The question being asked and the straight answer
The user asks for a 2024 count of CSAM “tips” received by the NCA; none of the supplied documents provide a definitive NCA tip total for CSAM in 2024, so there is no verifiable number to report from these sources (limitation of reporting) [3] [4]. The available materials discuss related statistics—notably large volumes reported to U.S. systems and trend figures about AI‑generated imagery—but they do not state “NCA received X tips of CSAM in 2024,” so a direct numeric answer cannot be sourced here [1] [2] [6].
2. What the sources do supply: U.S. CyberTipline scale and AI‑related surges
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) CyberTipline figures dominate the dataset: sources cite massive totals such as 20.5 million reports including nearly 63 million files, and other summaries reference 36.2 million reports and over 104 million files in recent years—illustrating the scale of online CSAM reporting in U.S.-centered data streams [2] [6] [7]. Thorn and related analysts also document a dramatic rise in generative‑AI related reports—moving from roughly 4,700 in 2023 to about 67,000 in 2024—signalling a new driver of tip volume even if AI cases remain a small share of total reports [2] [8].
3. What the sources say about the NCA and UK reporting, and why this matters
The NCA appears in the set primarily as a law‑enforcement actor responding to rising AI‑generated CSAM and offering guidance, with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and NCA noting large percentage increases in AI‑related reports (for example, IWF processing 380% more AI‑generated CSAM reports in 2024), but none of the supplied items enumerate a raw NCA tip count for CSAM in 2024 [4]. The NCA’s annual materials in these snippets focus on broader crime trends and Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) volumes (financial) rather than publishing a specific CSAM tip total for the calendar year 2024 [3] [9].
4. Drivers of reporting growth and reasons a single “NCA tip” number may be absent or misleading
Multiple factors changed reporting flows in 2024—new U.S. law (the REPORT Act) expanded mandatory platform reporting to include online enticement and trafficking, platforms changed policies and encryption defaults, and “bundling” of duplicate tips was introduced—each of which altered counts in telemetry and complicates apples‑to‑apples comparisons between agencies or years [5] [2]. Moreover, many CSAM reports originate with U.S.-based electronic service providers and NCMEC’s CyberTipline, so national tallies reflect reporting obligations and platform behaviors as much as underlying crime prevalence; this helps explain why source coverage centers on CyberTipline totals rather than a discrete NCA tip count [2] [6] [7].
5. Bottom line and how to get the precise number
Based on the provided reporting, it is not possible to state how many CSAM tips the NCA received in 2024—none of the supplied sources include that specific metric for the NCA (limitation of reporting) [3] [4]. To obtain a definitive figure, the appropriate next steps are to consult the NCA’s published annual report or data releases for 2024 focused on child sexual exploitation, request statistics directly from the NCA or the UK’s Internet Watch Foundation which partners with the NCA, or examine UK Home Office releases that might aggregate such disclosures; those primary documents were not part of the provided source set and thus cannot be cited here.