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Score more prosecutions wins with LACE!

February 2008

BlueBear Law Enforcement Services (LES) is a Canadian company focused on solutions in the fight against Child Exploitation. We have been giving out pucks at trade shows and conferences as a promotion to create awareness about our product LACE and how it can help “score” against Child Exploitation.

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Organizing Child Pornography Evidence

Rebecca Kanable , LawEnforcement Technology
August 2007

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Minister announces money for cybercrime study

Sherri Zickefoose, CanWest News Service - Calgary Herald
Sunday, August 19, 2007

CALGARY -- Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day announced $100,000 in federal funding on Saturday to support a $3-million study of cybercrime in Canada, with Calgary the possible location for a cybercrime-fighting headquarters.

"Cyberspace is an area that is actively alive and well with criminal intent and criminal activity,"Day said in Calgary during the Canadian Association of Police Boards (CAPB) conference. "We want to be able to look at how we can most efficiently zero in on the areas where properly preventative action can be taken in cyberspace to deal with criminal terrorist activity that goes on."

Calgary city council has already approved $1 million out of the police budget to study the feasibility of the Global Centre for Securing Cyberspace, known as CyberPol. The four-month study by the CAPB will evaluate the scope of the cybercrime problem and look into the requirements of a centre to identify, evaluate, prosecute and prevent it. The remaining $2 million for the study will come from provincial and federal governments.

The Calgary Police Commission asked council in July to dedicate money from the 2007 police operating budget surplus.
"We want to be leaders in this. This is where crime's going and we want to be ahead of it," said Ald. Craig Burrows, who sits on the police commission. "Money talks. I don't know what other cities have done but we're serious about this. Given Calgarians and use of the Internet in our city, it's a good place to have (CyberPol)."

The centre could house law enforcement officials from around the world, including those from the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Its purpose would be to fight Internet-based crimes such as identity theft and child exploitation.
It's proposed the centre would be based in Calgary and partner with the University of Calgary.
Ian Wilms, chairman of the Calgary Police Commission, says the push to move forward on the project has been on for years.
"This is a global problem. We had to go big. This is a big project but there's no other choice," he said. There is also a private member's bill by Calgary-Buffalo MLA Harvey Cenaiko before the Alberta legislature to create the centre. "Crime in cyberspace has run rampant since the Internet was opened to the public. Criminals follow the money, and the money is on the Internet. The costs of cybercrime are staggering," said Wilms. "These crimes, including child exploitation, require an acute effort by government and law enforcement. Our goal with this centre is to promote cooperation and collaboration in this effort."

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BlueBear LEC website launch

Saturday, August 18, 2007

We are thrilled to launch today the new BlueBear LEC website. More content - especially a French version - is on its way.

BlueBear LEC at the CACP Conference

Friday, August 17, 2007

CACP Conference, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police conference and exhibition, is where Chiefs of Police of Canada gather in an ideal venue in which to network and share information about similar concerns and challenges.
It will be held at Calgary, Alberta (Canada) from August 20 to 21, 2007.
BlueBear LES will be present at the exhibition to demonstrate it’s most recent version of the LACE product.

BlueBear patents its technology

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Patent issued for a secure system for the identification of persons using remote searching of facial, iris and voice biometric templates

Gatineau, Quebec – June 27, 2007 – BlueBear, a provider of child exploitation and distributed facial identification, today announced that on May 29, 2007 the United States Patent & Trademarks Office (USPTO) issued patent number 7,225,338 B2 for, “A secure system for the
identification of persons using remote searching of facial, iris and voice biometric templates.”
The USPTO accepted 9 claims resulting from the patent application which BlueBear can rely upon to protect its intellectual property. The Company’s patented intellectual property is embedded in its two products, LACE (Law Enforcement Against Child Exploitation) and IDLE (Integrated Digital Law Enforcement).

The patented intellectual property allows BlueBear to conduct secure, simultaneous, distributed searches of biometric (face, iris, and voice) templates and text from remote locations in linked biometric and text databases.

Market Drivers
Biometric information is available in police databases located in various cities. BlueBear’s remote identification and information sharing products provide law enforcement with the ability to link and share information securely and simultaneously in seconds. “There are millions of facial images in police databases that could be searched simultaneously in seconds,” said Sal Khan, from BlueBear.
“With the explosion of digital video, police are flooded daily with surveillance videos from crime scenes containing facial images of suspects.” Khan added, “BlueBear’s technology permits police to search not only their own mug shot database but also the databases of neighboring police.” “Since criminals travel from their own jurisdiction to other jurisdictions to commit crimes, this technology adds to the growing tools of information sharing available to law enforcement today,” continued Khan.