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WASHINGTON — It's called "Operation Predator," a high-priority Department of Homeland Security program that does battle against those who prey sexually on children.

Now, with last week's arrest of a department deputy secretary, at least two of the agency's own top personnel stand charged with just such offenses.

"It hammers home the fact that these individuals can be anywhere," said John Shehan, of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which works closely with Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau (ICE).

Brian Doyle, 55, deputy press secretary to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, faces 23 counts of using a computer to seduce a child and transmitting harmful materials to a minor. He was caught in a police Internet sting in which a detective pretended to be a 14-year-old girl.

The other Homeland Security official charged with a sexual offense involving a girl is Frank Figueroa, 49, the ICE special agent in charge of the agency's operations in central and northern Florida.

Within ICE, Operation Predator, launched in 2003, is dedicated to identifying, investigating and catching child predators, and reports more than 6,900 arrests nationwide since the program began, according to the ICE Web site (www.ice.gov).

Aside from cracking down on Internet predators and pornographers and those who traffic in child sexual slavery, the program also has created the National Child Victim Identification System.