Invaluable pictures of missing children
According to the National Center for Missing Children (formally known as NCMEC, or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children), few tools are as vital in the search for a lost child as a photograph. Recent pictures of missing children can be distributed to police, news agencies and other organizations and shown to the public so that potentially hundreds of thousands of concerned citizens can be on the lookout for that child.
According to the National Center for Missing Children and other advocacy agencies, there exists a short window of opportunity in abductions by strangers in which a child is most likely to be recovered safely. So, what is the most reliable way to assure that pictures of missing children get to assisting agencies, the media and before the public in a timely fashion, within that tiny window of opportunity? The Internet.
National Center for Missing Children notification
Life-Prints software was designed with input from NCMEC and state law enforcement agencies to include more relevant information. And, unlike most other child id kits, software from Life-Prints allows parents to instantly e-mail emergency files with digital child photos and useful information to police agencies, including police bulletin systems that are displayed right in police squad cars. In addition, parents can immediately send e-mail alerts to NCMEC and the media, who can put that information before concerned readers and viewers. This instant notification shortens the time it takes to alert the public by eliminating the need to travel to a police station to drop off a photo, verbally relay a description and other information, look up and call media contacts and/or copy and disperse lost child posters and flyers. Life-Prints software helps parents gather these tools in advance so that, if such a tragedy were to occur, a search for their child can commence immediately.