**The data showcased here represents partial-year figures and should be considered preliminary. Final totals will be confirmed and released in the 2025 Annual Report.
As we begin reflecting on 2025, one message stands out across every region and every program: lasting change happens when organizations and partners link arms and move together.
This year, Our Rescue, law enforcement, survivor-care organizations and community networks united to protect the vulnerable and confront sex trafficking and child exploitation. This year marked a strategic shift as we focused resources on surge operations, both domestically and abroad, and expanded our support of domestic, U.S. based programs such as Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) tasks forces through our ICAC Connect program, helping these agencies rapidly move cases forward, strengthen digital investigations, and identify vulnerable individuals faster.
Every Field Operation strategically overlaps with Survivor Care and Training & Prevention. Our three pillars are always intertwined, working hand-in-hand to prevent sex trafficking and child exploitation on a global scale.
FIELD OPERATIONS: Strengthening Our Global Impact
In 2025, our field teams supported agencies domestically and around the world as they worked to help law enforcement move cases forward, identify survivors, and strengthen local investigative capacity. These coordinated efforts—driven by our new surge operation model, digital forensics, and technology-assisted tools—allowed teams to deploy quickly, target resources where they were needed most, help agencies accelerate investigations in communities facing heightened exploitation, support survivors during an operation and after, and provide tools to local communities to raise awareness and training efforts.
Global Field Operations Totals (Including the U.S.)
- 4,755 operations
- 2,657 arrests
- 1,529 rescues
These results reflect cases where teams provided direct support as well as cases enabled through equipment, logistics, or specialized technology – demonstrating the power of collaboration and strategic investment.
FIELD OPERATIONS: Strengthening Our Domestic Impact
In the United States, our anti-child exploitation efforts remained focused on equipping law enforcement agencies with training, technology, and specialized resources that help uncover evidence, identify survivors, and support safe and effective investigations.
Much of this work grew through ICAC Connect, our effort to equip all 61 ICAC units with rapid forensic support, specialized technology, and direct case assistance to combat child sexual exploitation.
In 2025, we assisted:
- 258 agencies in total –
- 75 agencies trained
- 150 agencies supported with digital forensics
- 33 supported with ESD K9s
- Helped train 2,217 officers nationwide
These trainings help officers recognize indicators of trafficking and exploitation, respond using trauma-informed practices, and navigate digital tools that are essential to today’s investigations.
The Interstate Justice Coalition Launched in 2025
This year, the Interstate Justice Coalition (IJC) was created, demonstrating the power of coordinated, multi-state and multi stakeholder collaboration. The coalition brings together Our Rescue, Skull Games Solutions, We Fight Monsters, Operation Light Shine, and law enforcement agencies and survivor care organizations across the U.S., combining intelligence work, digital forensics, and survivor-centered support to strengthen investigations and accelerate rescue efforts.
In 2025, the IJC carried out its first multi-state surge operation, supporting officers across several jurisdictions as they identified victims, recovered survivors, and built strong cases against offenders.
FIELD OPERATIONS: Strengthening Our Digital Forensics
Digital crimes are accelerating at a scale never seen before. To confront this, agencies rely on advanced forensics, training, and rapid operational support. Support many agencies cannot provide and where Our Rescue steps in. Providing tools, technology and training to help move cases forward, faster, to uncover evidence and connect survivors to safety.
One of our most transformative tools supporting North America agencies is our Electronic Storage Detection (ESD) K9 Program. This army of highly trained K9s is redefining how evidence is located—finding critical devices during search warrants that human teams might never detect. In cluttered homes, hoarded environments, children’s bedrooms, attics, basements, and spaces filled with trash or insulation, these dogs ensure critical digital evidence isn’t overlooked.
In 2025:
- 33 new ESD K9s were placed (142 teams in total)
- Teams achieved an 83% success rate in locating hidden devices
- ESD K9 units deployed 1,600+ times across the country
Because of the combined impact of ICAC Connect, forensic tools, officer training, and ESD K9 support:
- 800+ predators were arrested
- 165 survivors were identified and connected to healing pathways
These numbers represent more than operational outcomes—they represent real cases and real survivors rescued.
SURVIVOR CARE: Expanding Access to Support and Healing
In 2025, we deepened our investment into partners and programs that walk with survivors after rescue, partners who provide safe housing, medical care, trauma therapy, legal assistance, and vocational opportunities.
Our survivor-care strategy expanded with our surge operation model which ensures that law enforcement efforts are aligned with urgent survivor care services.
In total, our teams supported:
- 1,037 survivors globally
- 92 NGOs and Survivor Care Government Agencies
Every service delivered, every referral made, and every resource shared moves someone closer to stability and healing. Our priority remains empowering the organizations that know their communities best and can support survivors with dignity.
TRAINING & PREVENTION: Building Safer Communities Through Awareness and Education
Children and communities are safer when communities understand the threats and the realities of exploitation. In 2025, our Training & Prevention team continued scaling courses and tools that help people and communities recognize red flags, respond safely, and stay informed.
Much of our prevention work in 2025 focused on helping communities understand digital threats, strengthening response skills, and getting critical training into regions experiencing heightened risk of exploitation.
To date, our team’s efforts in 2025 have resulted in:
- 3,825 people trained domestically
- 60 training events in the U.S.
- 180 training events internationally
- 57 organizations trained
- 50 courses available (with more in development)
These trainings are now informing policies, shaping community responses, and helping frontline professionals intervene earlier.
The Road Ahead
As we look ahead to 2026, the work remains urgent, but momentum is growing. The progress we’ve made shows what is possible when we come together.
As we strengthen surge operations, expand impact, and deepen survivor pathways, we continue building systems that protect the vulnerable and support those on the front lines.
Together, we help ensure more individuals are identified, more cases move forward, and more survivors find rescue, support and healing.
Hope is growing.
Momentum is building.
Together, change is possible.
