Attorney General Beau Biden asked the Joint Finance Committee to increase funding for the Child Predator Task Force, a unit that investigates online child exploitation. Biden told the committee that such funding was critical to help combat crimes against children.

Biden made the comments Monday in Dover when he appeared before the JFC to request additional financial allocation for items that were left unfunded by Gov. Jack Markell’s fiscal year 2015 budget. He was joined before the committee by state prosecutor Kathleen Jennings and Chief Deputy Attorney General Ian McConnell.