MARKHAM, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Aug. 20, 2015) - VIQ Solutions Inc. ("VIQ", "VIQ Solutions" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:VQS) is pleased to announce that the Corporation has been awarded a digital recording contract for a police department in a major metropolitan city in the northeastern US.

Under the contract, the police department will record suspect and witness interviews using VIQ's digital capture and management software. VIQ's powerful database backend gives detectives the ability to quickly locate and link previous testimony and interrogations as well as attached indexed multimedia files, such as scanned documents or pictures, to the recording to create a complete digital media evidence file.

VIQ's police capture, management and collaboration software solution has been designed specifically to meet the needs of law enforcement agencies, with sophisticated features such as remote audio-video monitoring, redaction of sensitive portions of recordings, and top-of-the-line security and chain of custody controls to ensure that recording and other digital media evidence stand up in court.

"VIQ has been aggressively pursuing police and law enforcement agencies in our drive to grow and this new contract win further establishes VIQ as a major player in the law enforcement digital capture, management and collaboration market," said Sebastien Paré, President and CEO of VIQ Solutions. "Police and law enforcement will continue to play a key role in the new VIQ as we expand our solution offerings and grow our customer base."

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About VIQ Solutions Inc.

VIQ Solutions is the global expert in digital recording technology. With a better approach to the collection, storage and management of digital audio, video and files, we help increase efficiency, improve security and reduce costs for courts, law enforcement agencies, insurance companies, health providers, and legislatures around the world. We've got the technology, the experience and the expertise to efficiently manage country-wide installations of hundreds of rooms, with hundreds of terabytes of data. Managing digital media evidence is what we do, and we do it better than anyone else.

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