2427: Exploited Child Unit – NCMEC

Thursday, June 24, 2004
1:00pm – 2:30pm
Presenter: Michelle Collins

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

This workshop will introduce law enforcement to the many types of technical assistance that NCMEC's Exploited Child Unit can provide in various types of child sexual exploitation investigations.

PRESENTER BIO

Michelle Collins is the Program Manager for the Exploited Child Unit (ECU) at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). She oversees the operation of the Cyber Tipline as well as the Child Victim Identification Project. Michelle has been with the ECU for six years and during that time has seen a 75% increase in reports on child sexual exploitation. In 2002, Michelle met with programmers to create NCMEC’s Child Recognition and Identification System (CRIS). The goal of CRIS is to aid child pornography prosecutions as well as identify the unknown children featured in these sexually abusive images.

Michelle has provided extensive technical assistance to law enforcement during Operation Hamlet and coordinated the international scope of Operation Web Sweep. Ms. Collins received a Bachelor or Arts in Psychology from George Mason University and a Master of Arts in Criminology from the University of Maryland.

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