America's Missing Broadcast Emergency Response
The first few hours immediately following a child's
disappearance are the most critical to bringing them home unharmed. Every
hour, day and week that a child is missing, the likelihood that they will
be recovered safely decreases drastically. In fact, 74% of abducted children
who are murdered are killed within the first 3 hours of abduction. It is
because of this sensitivity to time that programs such as the AMBER Plan
were created. The AMBER Plan is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement
agencies and broadcasters to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious
child-abduction cases with the hope that ordinary citizens are able to aid in
the search for abducted children.
AMBER Alert Net extends the reach of vital AMBER Alerts to computer desktops
at home and in the workplace. Through a free small software application, Internet-connected
users are now able to receive, print and email AMBER Alerts as they are released by
local law-enforcement agencies.
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