March 25th 2025
- Recognition from high profile child protection international organisation that has prevented over 750,000 cases of child abuse, enabled 16,067 predator arrests and rescued 3,695 children from the throes of abhorrent child abuse since its inception.
Last week, Get Safe Online’s Paul Bayer received the highly respected ‘Lifetime Impact Award’ at the Child Rescue Coalition’s 8th Annual ‘Tech with Heart’ Gala, held in Florida, in recognition of ‘his superior performance and dedication to protecting innocence through technology’.
Paul is shown here at the left of the photo with Child Rescue Coalition colleagues (from left to right) Jay Houston – Director of Training, Tom Farrell – Director of Core Technologies, Richard Matthews – Trainer and Greg Schiller – the organisation’s new CEO.
Child Rescue Coalition is a global not-for-profit organisation that combats child abuse and exploitation across the globe. Headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, their tireless work aids law enforcement in identifying and prosecuting child predators and has resulted in the prevention of abuse of over 750,000 children, aided in the arrest of over 16,000 child predators, and rescue of over 3,600 children across 106 countries since it began.
Paul has trained almost 2,000 investigators from 58 different countries on the use of CRC technologies – empowering them to use the platform to identify and trace thousands of child predators across the globe, and significantly impacting the lives of hundreds of children trapped in a cycle of child abuse. This lifetime achievement award reflects the impact of Paul’s work with the organisation.
Concurrently, Paul Bayer has been a Senior Online Safety Advisor with Get Safe Online – and has been pivotal to its international training delivery and advice for citizens across the globe.
Tony Neate, CEO at Get Safe Online comments: “We are thrilled that Paul has been recognised for all his hard work in protecting some of the most vulnerable children in the world. Child Rescue Coalition is a highly regarded team in the fight against child abuse and for one of our experts to be so heavily involved in such an important initiative is testament to the quality of experts we have. Huge congratulations for such a well earnt award, Paul, and for all the excellent work you continue to do – we couldn’t be prouder.”
Established in 2006, Get Safe Online is a not-for-profit authoritative and widely respected international resource designed to help individuals and small businesses stay safe, secure and confident when using the internet. The information and advice provided is designed to be impartial, practical and easy to follow by all of its target audiences, including parents and their children.
A cybercrime trainer since 2002, Paul’s expertise is now being put to use answering online safety questions submitted to Get Safe Online, as well as delivering training in the UK and around the world. Over the years Paul has designed, developed and trained cybercrime courses which have been accepted as the UK standard training for individuals taking up investigative roles in the computer crime arena. Paul has trained officers from all European nations and has trained courses as far away as Colombia in the west to The Philippines in the east.
