Adele Desirs

Adèle DESIRS is a French Police Captain who has dedicated all her career to the rescue and protection of children. She has been detached to the Argos unit within the Queensland Police Service in Australia since March 2017, where she now serves as Team Leader of the Victim Identification team. Having joined Argos as a Victim Identification Analyst, her work has centred on reviewing and analysing all the data seized by the unit post-arrest, as well as proactively searching the darknet and encrypted apps for new child abuse material, with the aim of identifying the victims and offenders. In her current role as Team Leader, she also leads and coordinates the team's victim identification operations.

Since 2020, the Argos Victim Identification unit has been embedded at the federally funded Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation facility in Brisbane, alongside Australian Federal Police analysts.

Prior to her role in Argos, Adèle DESIRS was a Criminal Intelligence Officer within the Crimes against Children unit at the INTERPOL General Secretariat in Lyon, where she was mainly responsible for victim identification activities and the administration of the International Child Sexual Exploitation Database (ICSEDB).