Information was passed to the Met by the National Crime Agency (NCA), which led to the arrest of Adam Shine, 25 at his home in Digby Road, Hackney on 6 February.
PC Lindsey Luscombe, of the Met’s Online Child Sex Abuse Investigation Team, policing Hackney and Tower Hamlets, said: “The information provided by the NCA linked Shine to indecent images of children.