Cyber Safety Advocate and author Brett Lee, worked as a Queensland Police Officer for 22 years, 16 of those as a Detective in the field of Child Exploitation. In the 5 years prior to his retirement from the QPS, he was a specialist in the field of undercover internet child exploitation investigations. Brett has been personally involved in the online investigation, arrest and prosecution of numerous offenders whose medium for preying on children is the internet.
In the area of online internet investigations, Brett has delivered training/instruction to members of law enforcement agencies including New South Wales Police, South Australian Police, West Australian Police and Australian Customs. Within his own police service he was involved in the training of plain clothes police through Detective Training and Sexual Crimes courses in Online Child Exploitation investigations.
Further to Brett's experience he has completed the FBI Advanced Internet Investigations Course and has worked with the FBI Innocent Images Unit, Maryland USA, the Department of Homeland Security Cyber Crimes Centre, Virginia USA and the San Jose Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, California USA.
He has attended conferences on internet child exploitation investigation in the Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
Brett has received the Queensland Police Commissioner's Gold Award and the Crime and Misconduct Commissioner's Award for his role in the development and implementation of software that is now utilised by various Australian Law enforcement agencies to track and identify online child offenders.
Keynote speaker, presenter and trainer at conferences and events worldwide. He is the author of the awarded book ‘Screen Resolution’. Worked with state governments and large organisations as a Cyber Safeguarding consultant and content creator.
He is the creator of Internet Safe Education which has worked with thousands of school communities since 2008 providing Cyber Safety education, tools and support. Nobody else in Australia can offer programs with this level of credibility or insight whereby the learning outcomes cannot be denied.
During his time in the Qld Police Service, Brett delivered lectures to numerous school students, teacher and parent groups at both State and non-government schools on all issues relating to internet safety. This inspired a passion to impart his expert knowledge to as many children and young adults as possible to ensure they remain safe online.
As a thought leader, Brett is often sought out and engaged by leading media outlets including CNN Global, A Current Affair, All major Australian television news outlets etc.