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Environmental Criminology Research Inc. (ECRI) develops and supplies software for geographic profiling and serial crime analysis to police, military and security customers. The company is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

ECRI's Rigel™ professional geographic profiling system was first introduced with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in 1997, with the National Crime and Operations Faculty (NCOF) in the UK in 1999, and with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) in the United States in 2000. ECRI’s products are now used by national, regional and local agencies throughout the world, in applications from ranging from serial murder investigation to counter-terrorism to reducing local property crime.

ECRI’s patented geographic profiling technology is based on the pioneering work of Dr. Kim Rossmo, who developed the concept of geographic profiling as part of his doctoral research at Simon Fraser University in the early 1990s while a serving police officer in Vancouver. From 1996 - 2000 Dr. Rossmo was Detective Inspector in charge of a special Geographic Profiling Unit at the Vancouver Police Department which trained geographic profilers from other international police agencies. He has since retired from active police service and is now a research professor at Texas State University, heading the university’s Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation. Dr. Rossmo helped to found ECRI in 1994, and has served as ECRI's Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Board since inception.

Dr. Kim Rossmo - Chairman of the Board and Chief Scientist
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Ian Laverty - President and CEO

Philip MacLaren - VP, Sales and Marketing