NYPD cops hope that recent developments in the Etan Patz case will spark a possible new lead in the disappearance of 7-year-old Patrick Alford from Brooklyn more than two years ago.

Patrick went missing from his foster home in East New York on Jan. 22, 2010, while taking out the trash around 9 p.m.

“It’s been an exhaustive search, and it continues to go forward,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said of Patrick during a press conference today, in which he also spoke about the 33-year-old case of Etan and his now-confessed alleged killer, Pedro Hernandez.

“We are hopeful that the attention to Etan Patz’s case may jolt someone’s memory or may just give us the opportunity to get more information coming in,” Kelly said.

In the two years since Patrick’s disappearance, police have received more than 50 tips about the case, Kelly said. All of the leads are followed up by the department’s Missing Persons Bureau, he said.

“We are certainly not going to give up. We are going to continue to actively investigate this case,” Kelly said.

There is a $12,000 reward associated with this case. Anyone with information is asked to call (800) 577-TIPS.