** Content warning: Sex offences **

Detectives from the Community Protection Offender Reporting team have this week charged a reportable offender with additional offences following a routine compliance check.

The reportable offender, a 46-year-old man in southern Tasmania, has been charged with the additional offences of:

• Possession of bestiality material
• Distributing bestiality material
• Failing to comply with his reporting obligations.

The man will appear in the Hobart Magistrates Court in August.

Any offending of this nature is a serious crime type.

Tasmania Police, with the support of its partners, is committed to interrupting these offences to keep our community safe.

If you have seen inappropriate behaviour, call Triple Zero (000) if someone is in immediate danger, or 131 444 to report to police. You can report anonymously to Crime Stoppers Tasmania on 1800 333 000 or online at crimestopperstas.com.au

If a child is involved, you can also report online to the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) https://www.accce.gov.au/report

The Tasmanian Government’s Keeping Children Safe website is available at https://keepingchildresafe.tas.gov.au/

Support for victim survivors, if required, is available through Arch https://arch.tas.gov.au/ or via https://keepingchildrensafe.tas.gov.au/get-support/