UK's The Missing Kids Website

Having featured the US site for missing and exploited children, I felt it was important to also feature the UK's services for missing and exploited children. Both systems are similar as the UK site was built with the help of the US center. There are many organizations in the UK that work together to create a network to help find and recover missing and exploited children. The following was taken directly from the UK's Missing Kids website.  A police website dedicated to finding missing and abducted children. This is the only Internet site containing details of missing children approved by the Association of Chief Police Officers in England, Scotland and Wales, and the Home Office. It is managed by the  NPIA Missing Persons Bureau and is a partnership with the following organisations: <>  CA hosts the website, and donates technology and on-going services as part of its Commicmec.orgunity Relations programme. The International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, provides support and works with international agencies to create a global network of partners.   Parents & Abducted Children Together, actively promotes the website and sponsors the distribution of posters. PACT's patron is Cherie Blair. The international charity was founded by Lady Meyer, the wife of Sir Christopher Meyer, who was the British Ambassador to the USA.

 One of the most important services listed on this website is the Child Rescue Alert. It is the equivalent of the Amber Alert system in the US and gets information out on an abducted child via the media with expediency.

Featured Services Child Rescue Alert 2010 Further information is available on the fact sheet page of The Missing Kids website as shown below: Fact Sheet It is estimated by the charity PACT that there are approximately 100,000 instances of children going missing in the UK every year. Some of these children have gone missing on more that one occasion. Further details of this research are contained in the reports Every Five Minutes and Beyond Every Five Minutes which are available on this website. Speed is critical in locating missing and abducted children. Modern technology offers a unique way in which the public, police, NGOs and the private sector can work together better to protect our children. The Missing Kids Website was originally created in the USA by the National Center of Missing & Exploited Children    The website is an extremely secure one fully protected by a complex security system. It is controlled by the police service and only trained police officers' and staff can place information on the site. The Website displays photographs and descriptions of missing children. By viewing the Website, the public can help the Police bring these children home safely. The US Website receives 2.8 million "hits" a day. To date one in every six children featured on this site is recovered as a result of someone recognising that child's photograph and calling authorities with information that has directly led to recovery. The Missingkids Website has already been introduced to 15 countries with the help of Computer Associates (CA). Each participating country enters its own missing children's cases, tracks leads, and reports progress in a centralised location for law enforcement, families, media, and government agencies to carefully monitor. Only the Police can input information on the UK site. These national sites are linked to a global network with easy worldwide access. Over 3,000 children's cases are posted. The technology includes age-progression techniques that have been successful in identifying and retrieving children years after their disappearance. The Website also allows the downloading of posters of missing and abducted children. In the United Kingdom, it is managed by the NPIA Missing Persons Bureau, and it is promoted by the charity PACT. The UK Missingkids Website is the only site of this kind which is approved by the Home Office, ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) and ACPO(S) (Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland). This state-of-the-art, searchable database can be viewed throughout the world 24 hours a day, 365 days a year Posters of missing children featured on the website, are displayed in Tescos' stores throughout the country. "This work is important in creating an effective safety net for our children. The problem of missing children does not recognise borders - in fact borders can make the problem of finding and recovering missing children more difficult. This website helps the police work across those borders more effectively." Assistant Commissioner, Richard Bryan, ACPO lead on Missing Persons. Resources: http://uk.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PublicHomeServlet?LanguageCountry=en_GB