Is your business or organization an easy target for crime? Attend the upcoming Good Morning Breakfast, Tues., July 28^th, and learn easy steps on how to position your security

cameras to adequately capture facial images and assist law enforcement to apprehend criminals.

Hear an informative presentation by Sagem Morpho Inc. on how its high tech biometric facial recognition application enables law enforcement and intelligence analysts to quickly compare photographs of suspects against large databases of images and make identifications within seconds. Sagem Morpho Inc., based in Tacoma , is an integral

part of Sagem Securities’ global success in the development, manufacture and integration

of biometric technologies including fingerprint, iris, palm and facial recognition. They

provide services for systems throughout North America , including law enforcement,

Federal Government, Homeland Security, civil identification and applicant background

check systems, and is the biometric algorithm provider for the FBI AFIS.

The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department became the first law enforcement agency in

the United States to deploy the MorphoFace Investigate (MFI) system as part of a pilot program initiated in 2008. That same year Pierce County scored its first arrest utilizing the MFI – making national news. By comparing an automatic teller machine (ATM) photograph against the sheriff’s department’s digital database of 350,000 mug shots, a criminal was identified and apprehended. For more information visit www.morpho.com/newsroom.

Breakfast will be held at La Quinta Inn & Suites Conference Center, 1425 East 27^th Street |Tacoma 98421. Cost is $14 Ambassadors pre-paid;  $15  Members pre-paid by July 23;  $20 members after July 24; $35non-members / walk-ins. Register online: www.tacomachamber.org; or Janice Hutchins janiceh@tacomachamber.org or 253.627.2175.

Special thanks to event sponsor, Sonitrol Pacific.