Brett Lee

Internet Safe Education founder and former child exploitation investigator

Brett Lee is the founder of Internet Safe Education which has a mission to equip and educate young Australians with the skills and knowledge to use the internet safely while making them aware of their rights and responsibilities in the cyberworld.

Brett believes that education is the key to keeping children safe and has presented to tens of thousands of students, teachers, and parents across Australia.

Brett worked as a Queensland police officer for 22 years, 16 of those as a detective in the field of child exploitation. In the five years prior to his retirement from the QPS, he was a specialist in the field of internet child exploitation investigations.

Brett has been personally involved in the online investigation, arrest and prosecution of numerous offenders, who’s medium for preying on children is the internet.

Brett has delivered training 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.

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.

Brett has spoken at conferences around Australia and the world and makes regular appearances in the media.

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.

Brett was contracted in Iraq on a US/Iraq project as a police instructor at the Iraq National Police Academy located outside the township of An Numinayah. Brett often incorporates stories of his experience there into his presentations.