Michael A. Caron and Nathaniel Clark, two Kingston residents, have been charged on child pornography-related counts.

Caron, 38, and Clark, 24, were arrested by Kingston Police Force Internet Child Exploitation (KPF I.C.E.) detectives and charged on Sept. 23 and 24, respectively.

Caron was charged with one count of accessing child pornography, two counts of possession of child pornography and one count of making available child pornography.

Clark was charged with two counts of accessing child pornography, two of possession of child pornography and two of making available child pornography.

Three laptops, one hard drive and one iPad were seized as evidence. Caron’s next court date is scheduled for Oct. 30. Clark’s is set for Nov. 6.

The arrests were part of a larger online child exploitation provincial strategy investigation, the Provincial Strategy to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation on the Internet, which began in 2006.

Between Aug. 2006 and Aug. 2014, 23,581 investigations were undertaken and 8,750 charges were laid against 2,617 people.

The KPF joined the provincial strategy — which now includes 26 agencies — in Feb. 2007.

Const. Steve Koopman, media relations officer for the KPF, said the investigation into the two individuals began in mid-August.

The KPF I.C.E. team is comprised of two detectives, Stephanie Morgan and Mhairi Knapp, who, Koopman said, “are specifically and specially trained to investigate child pornography and online child exploitation.”

I.C.E. is a subunit of the Sexual Crimes Unit in the KPF’s Criminal Investigations Division.

When IP addresses “that appear to have accessed child pornography” are identified as originating in Kingston, local I.C.E.

detectives begin production orders and warrants to locate the subscriber of the address.

Koopman said he doesn’t think there’s an association between the two individuals that were arrested, to his knowledge

However, he said there’s the potential that they used similar methods of finding information on accessing, possessing and making child pornography.

“We want any suspects or any perpetrators who are doing this to know that we are out there, we are proactively looking for you and that we have the support of the public and that we receive some amazing tips,” he said.

“And just because the world wide web makes it global, doesn’t mean that we don’t have a responsibility to do as much as possible to ensure that [children are] safe and that the persons that are committing these crimes are held accountable.”