Angels That Care provide criteria for activating Amber Alert

1.Police can confirm a child abduction has occurred

2.Officials believe the child is in danger of serious bodily harm or death

3.There is enough information about the child and/or abductor(s) that an immediate alert will help.

Canadian Criteria

The Amber Plan can only be activated if

Scotland

'A child of 15 years of age or younger, or an individual under a proven mental or physical disability is abducted and there is reason to believe the victim is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death'

AND

There is information available to disseminate to the public which could assist in the safe recovery of the victim and/or the apprehension of the offender'

When a child under 16 goes missing

The child is believed kidnapped

A senior police officer fears death or serious harm

The case has sufficient descriptive details, eg photos of victim or suspect

England

http://crime.allinfoabout.com/missing/amber-ohio.html

http://crime.allinfoabout.com/missing/amberalert.html

http://www.amberalert911.com/faq.php

"Seventy-four percent of children who are kidnapped and later found murdered are killed within the first 3 hours after being taken. As AMBER Alert Coordinator, I am working closely with local law enforcement and broadcasters to speed the safe recovery of every abducted child."

--Deborah J. Daniels,

Assistant Attorney General and

National AMBER Alert Coordinator

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www.achildismissing.org

http://www.beyondmissing.com/bm?p=Apply

Amber Alert Criteria by State

http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=MISSING-05-10-05

Missing-children cases fumbled by police nationwide

By THOMAS HARGROVE

Scripps Howard News Service

10-MAY-05

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Each program, whether local, state, or regional, establishes its own AMBER Plan criteria; however, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children suggests three criteria that should be met before an Alert is activated.

Law enforcement confirms a child has been abducted.

Law enforcement believes the circumstances surrounding the abduction indicate that the child is in danger of serious bodily harm or death.

There is enough descriptive information about the child, abductor, and/or suspects vehicle to believe an immediate broadcast alert will help.

Age criteria vary from plan to plan. Most plans currently in effect consider activation for a child under the age of eighteen. For the specifics on the criteria for your area CLICK HERE.

All plans are limited to abducted children, and, therefore, exclude children believed to be parental abductions, runaways or thrown away children from home.

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Police departments around the nation are rewriting their policies for runaway, lost and kidnapped children after learning that an often-overlooked law requires them to immediately report all missing youths to state and federal authorities.

The Justice Department this week said it also has violated the 15-year-old act of Congress and promised to begin publicly releasing an annual summary of missing-children cases. The number of cases reported to the FBI by police has increased significantly in recent months, at least partly as a result of the new police policies.

Written 12/26/05

http://www.missingchildren.ca/Children.htm?CD=593

Nov 29, 1990:Signed by President.Became Public Law No: 101-647Title XXXVII - National Child Search Assistance Act of 1990 - Requires each Federal, State,and local law enforcement agency to report each case of a missing child under age 18 to theNational Crime Information Center (NCIC) of the Department of Justice. Directs the AttorneyGeneral to publish an annual summary of such reports.Requires States reporting under this Act to: (1) ensure that no State law enforcement agencyestablishes a policy which requires a waiting period before accepting a missing child or uniden-tified person report; (2) provide that each such report and all necessary and available informa-tion is entered into the State law enforcement system and the NCIC computer networks andmade available to the Missing Children Information Clearinghouse of other designated agencywithin the State; and (3) require the law enforcement agency that entered the report into theNCIC to verify and update such record with any additional information (including, where avail-able, medical and dental records), institute or assist with appropriate search and investigativeprocedures, and maintain close liaison with the National Center for Missing and ExploitedChildren for the exchange of information and technical assistance in the missing children cases.

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