FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Virtual Technologies, Ltd. announces the Virtual Arrest™ satellite surveillance system.

Spokane, WA – March 8, 2004

     Virtual Technologies, Ltd. announced this morning the commercial availability of its Virtual Arrest™ offender Tracking Global Network technology.  Virtual Arrest™ technology incorporates the company’s revolutionary, patent pending, Virtual Shadow™ Route Following system to offer what no other company can – the ability to track anyone, anywhere, anytime.

     The Virtual Arrest™ Offender Tracking Global Network exploits the emerging business-to-business personnel monitoring industry.  In the U.S. alone, the rapidly growing industry of 100,000 daily monitored offenders generates over $200 million annually.  Virtual Arrest™ combines Virtual Shadow™ Route Following technology with real-time interactive wireless communications, Global Positioning System (GPS), and wireless Internet to solve global offender tracking problems.  Product demand demonstrates significant potential for global revenues of over $1 billion annually.

     Virtual Arrest™ technology uses Internet-based mapping, Department of Defense Global Positioning System satellite technology, Virtual Guardian™ wireless identification and proximity detection, and revolutionary Virtual Shadow™ tracking technology, to provide affordable real-time satellite tracking, monitoring, and reporting of monitored personnel.  For the first time, the Virtual Arrest™ Offender Tracking Global Network will provide law enforcement the means to effectively monitor both lower risk misdemeanor offenders and, more importantly, track higher risk felons and offenders sentenced to community supervision.

     The Virtual Arrest™ solution will give corrections authorities the tools to efficiently monitor parolees, probationers, sexual offenders sentenced to community supervision, individuals on work release, work crews, offenders in transport status, and pretrial release defendants, thus providing a more secure criminal justice incarceration alternative for over 371 million offenders comprising the rapidly increasing global correctional population.

     Virtual Arrest™ technology implementation solves vital public safety concerns.  Incorporating, Virtual Shadow™ Route Following technology, Virtual Arrest™ is the only system to reliably track people outdoors, indoors, and during GPS outages.  Virtual Arrest™ technology:

• Provides real-time violation reporting – allows authorities to arrest offenders before they commit additional crimes.

• Provides correctional authorities control to keep ahead of the fast growing trend placing offenders on probation in lieu of a prison or jail sentence.
• Allows officers with wireless enabled devices (i.e., handheld computer, internet enabled cell phones, etc.) to monitor an offender, or map directly to the offender’s location, from anywhere at anytime.
• Offender’s complete location history is easily accessed via the Internet, allowing police to verify offender whereabouts for criminal investigations (whether 30 days or 3 years ago).
• Allows police to determine if an offender was at or near a crime scene.

     Through controlled monitoring at a Virtual Technologies’ designed Network Operations Center, or via customer secure wireless Internet access, Virtual Arrest™ will track the GeoSpatial position of every monitored person, report specific activities, and identify violations of customer-established restricted areas (i.e., schools, day cares, prior victims residences, etc.).  Information is transmitted in real-time to authorities via secure wireless Internet, telephone, paging, and Internet-based mapping services.  Moreover, prior crime victims may be immediately notified when offenders violate conditions of their probation/parole or approach their location.

The Virtual Arrest™ solution:

• Can save government agencies hundreds of millions of dollars in costs required to build and manage additional brick and mortar facilities.  Offers parole boards an affordable and viable option to parole non-violent inmates.
  • Frees up scarce cell space for newly sentenced criminals.
  • Relieves overcrowding allowing the “worst” inmates to remain incarcerated.
• Provides authorities the control they presently lack to closely monitor all probationers, parolees, or supervised mandatory release offenders returned to society.
  • Significantly increases public safety.  Allows comprehensive indoor/outdoor 24/7 supervision.
  • Minimizes offender recidivism.

     Virtual Technologies, Ltd. specializes in designing and providing reliable, lower cost alternatives to industry standard telemetry, monitoring, and control devices, as well as DC-DC converters, DC-AC inverters, AC-DC power supplies, frequency and phase converters, and MPPT power supplies.  Our company is expert in designing and manufacturing telemetry, monitoring, and control solutions, as well as power electronics for the renewable energy and energy exploration markets.

     Virtual Technologies, Ltd. is a Spokane, Washington based global business-to-business telemetry, communications, remote control, and remote monitoring company, providing cost-effective satellite and wireless solutions for tracking, monitoring, control and reporting of assets and personnel.  Virtual Technologies, Ltd. is a privately owned corporation.  Its web address is www.VirtualTechnologiesLtd.com.

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For More Information Contact:

Mike Whitefoot

Virtual Technologies, Ltd.

Tel: (509) 244-3252

info@VirtualTechnologiesLtd.com