LANSING - Operation Broken Heart III was designed to put child predators in bars. In Michigan, the effort has been localized as the Michigan Internet Crimes Against Children task force managed to arrest 28 child predator suspects.

Whenever there is a case of child victimization, local law enforcement agencies collaborate with national ones to try to pinpoint the criminal.

"We work cooperatively with the State Police and Michigan State University Internet Crimes Department," said Ken Plaga, Meridian Township's Assistant Police Chief, listing off numerous connections that the police had. "We take investigating these crimes very seriously. We send all our detectives to specialized training for crimes against children, and whenever a child is involved, we bring all our resources to bear."

For parents like Keith Donley, they take all the precautions to make sure it never comes to that.

"I never let her leave my sight," Donley said, while his daughter Savannah is perched upon his shoulders. "I don't even let her go on the monkey bars without me."

However, Donley acknowledges that the internet presents a new challenge for parents.

"It exposes them to a lot of other things such as talking to people that you don't know. It could be a grown man posing as a 13-year-old child."

While national and statewide crackdowns are important, preventative measures often lie in the hands of parents.

According to the Michigan State Police over 1,300 arrests have been made nationwide in two months.