The Amber Alert
If your child is missing there is a 99% chance that your child will not qualify for the AMBER alert.
You must meet certain criteria.
Summary of Department of Justice Recommended Criteria:
- There is reasonable belief by law enforcement that an abduction has occurred.
- The law enforcement agency believes that the child is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death.
- There is enough descriptive information about the victim and the abduction for law enforcement to issue an AMBER Alert to assist in the recovery of the child.
- The abduction is of a child aged 17 years or younger.
- The child’s name and other critical data elements, including the Child Abduction flag, have been entered into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) system.
If you don’t know who took your child or have a license plate number, there is not enough information to push out to the public. And it’s up to YOU to make sure your child’s name and other critical data elements, including the Child Abduction flag, have been entered into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) system.
Although the AMBER Alert is a good program, less than 1% ever qualify for the AMBER Alert.
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What is the Child Abduction flag? My family and I have never heard of it and we feel we stay on top of this ugly issue. Also Daryl, if a family does not meet the strict criteria of the AMBER Alert, what does one do? We all know that most kids are in the most critical arms of danger the very first hour of an abduction.
Hi Chris,
Thank you for your questions.
The “Child Abduction Flag” is a mechanism that has been added to missing person entries to facilitate automatic notification to the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crimes (NCAVC) and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
Use of this automatic alert system may save valuable time in the crucial first 48 hours after a child is abducted.
According to the FBI 76% of abducted children are dead within 3 hours.
This is very IMPORTANT. If your child is missing, contact law enforcement immediately.
Federal law requires law enforcement to enter information about a missing child into the NCIC within 2 hours of receiving a missing child report. It’s YOUR responsiblity to see that it’s done.
YOU as a parent must request and make sure that your child’s name and other identifying information is entered into the “National Crime Information Center” (NCIC) missing person file.
Daryl Whicker