The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency expanded its mobile app, adding support for Google Android devices and Spanish-language users.

The ICE app, known as Operation Predator, has been promoted as the first U.S. federal law enforcement app since its original launch for Apple's iOS devices in September 2013. The app's purpose is to have the public help the process of locating fugitive and unknown child predators, but ICE warned that members of the public "should not attempt to personally apprehend suspects."

The app's expansion to Android devices and for Spanish-speaking mobile users will allow people to receive alerts about a wanted predator, share information through email and social media, provide information to HSI and view information about a child predator's arrest and prosecution. Mobile device owners with the ICE app could receive the Spanish version by updating the same app to version 2.1.

"This app is one piece of our commitment to ensuring child predators have absolutely nowhere to hide," acting ICE Director Thomas Winkowski said.

ICE disclosed that the first 36 hours of the app's original launch helped special agents of its Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) to apprehend a suspect. The suspect, Mark Robert Austin, was arrested in Michigan. ICE claimed people called in tips about Austin's whereabouts based on his profile information in the ICE app.

"One of the primary goals of this app was to make the world a very small place for suspected child predators to hide," said acting special agent of HSI Detroit William Hayes. "The arrest of Mr. Austin certainly proves that goal was accomplished."

In early June, the Operation Predator app received the "Best App" recognition by PR News' Social Media Icon Awards.

"This was a total team effort, and it took the collective talents of the agency to make this happen," ICE Web Content Manager Kevin Downey said. "The goal is to take fugitive child predators off the streets, and this app represents a collaboration between the government and the American people to make that happen."

Operation Predator initially started as an HSI campaign in 2003, which has resulted in over 10,000 individuals arrested for crimes against children.

The app's expansion comes as the Department of Homeland Security disclosed 438,421 immigrants were deported from the U.S. Mexico was responsible for the largest representation of overall immigrants removed from the U.S. with 314,904 immigrants, including 146,298 criminals with prior convictions.