Immigration and Customs Enforcement has launched a smartphone app designed to solicit public input to help with identifying and locating fugitive and unknown suspect child predators.
ICE noted that all tips can be reported anonymously through the app, by phone or online, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and said that in addition to profiling cases that need to be solved, the new smartphone app contains photos and information about known fugitives in HSI criminal cases involving sexually abused and exploited children.
ICE’s Office of Public Affairs developed the app with special agents from HSI’s Cyber Crimes Center and field offices across the country in order to seek the public’s help with information about child predators wanted for criminal prosecution.
The Operation Predator App enables those who download it to receive alerts about wanted predators, to share the information with friends via email and social media tools, and to provide information to HSI by calling or submitting an online tip, ICE said.
