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Officer Receives Award for His Work With LACE
TORONTO Nov 14, 2006 - BlueBear Network International, Inc. (Other OTC:
BLBR.PK - News) is pleased to announce that Detective Constable Phil
Shrewsbury-Gee of York Regional Police Service received an award for his
work piloting BlueBear's innovative new software product - LACE - that
fights child exploitation. LACE (Law Enforcement Against Child
Exploitation) provides child exploitation units with the ability to
automatically categorize images found on seized computer hard drives in
child exploitation cases.
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The award from the Toronto Chapter of ASIS was presented to
Shrewsbury-Gee at its law enforcement appreciation dinner, which was
held in Toronto in late October.
It was at the request of Shrewsbury-Gee that BlueBear developed an
exceptional image matching capability that is one of the key component
modules of LACE. Shrewsbury-Gee was also instrumental in the development
of user requirements that resulted in an automated image-categorization
process that saves analysts and investigators enormous amounts of time
and labour. Furthermore, LACE helps process the backlog of child
exploitation cases awaiting analysis and investigation in most police
agencies.
As envisioned by Shrewsbury-Gee, with its integrated distributed face
identification and information-sharing module, LACE can identify faces
of victims and suspects in linked facial image databases. "Never again,
during a child exploitation investigation will I find myself saying,
where have I seen that picture or face before, LACE will show me exactly
where and when I have seen all similar images," Shrewsbury-Gee said.
At the awards dinner, York Regional Police Chief Armand La Barge
stated that, "York Regional Police is proud to be at the forefront in
state-of-the-art technology that will revolutionize the investigation of
technological crime."
Sal Khan, CEO of BlueBear, acknowledged that, "Without Phil
Shrewsbury-Gee's vision, LACE would not be a product today."
York Regional Police was the first police agency in the world to
start using the alpha version of LACE. The alpha trial proved to be
successful and York Regional Police has decided to evaluate the beta
version of LACE in conjunction with other police agencies in Ontario and
across Canada.
About BlueBear Network International, Inc.: BlueBear Network
International, Inc. (Other OTC:BLBR.PK - News) is a Nevada company based
in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. BlueBear develops and markets the world's
first system (LACE) that automatically processes and categorizes
media-evidence files from seized computer hard drives in child
exploitation cases. LACE can also search and identify victims, suspects,
& witnesses in police facial images databases located worldwide. For
more information, visit
http://www.bbninternational.com/.
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Contact:
Sal Khan
CEO
skhan@bbninternational.com
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