Informations sur les enlèvements/disparitions d'enfants RU ou Angleterre & Pays de Galleshttp://www.missingpeople.org.uk/media-centre/papers/detail.asp?dsid=603Foreign and Commonwealth Office – Child Abduction Unit
The Child Abduction Unit Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) will also offer assistance to British Nationals affected by parental child abduction. They deal with three broad categories of child abduction :-
Abduction – where a child has been taken overseas without the other parents consent –
this is a criminal offence under UK law (except in Scotland )
Wrongful retention – where a child has been retained in a foreign country following an overseas trip.
Threat of abduction – where there is a risk that a child will be taken overseas.
If you are a British National currently resident overseas, please visit the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website for details of your nearest British Embassy.
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According to a
US Department of Justice study, 74% of children who were kidnapped and murdered, were killed within the first 3 hours of their abduction. This is why it is imperative for the police to act quickly and to enrol the public’s help as soon as possible.
In November 2002, the Sussex Police launched their own version of AMBER, which they called Child Rescue Alert. It was soon rolled out nationally.
An Alert is activated only when it is feared that the abducted child
(under 16 years old) is in imminent danger of serious harm or death and that there is sufficient information to enable the public to assist the olice in finding the child. To be successful the Alert relies on close partnership with the media.
http://www.pact-online.org/html/child_rescue_alert.htmlABDUCTIONSSince 2002, the police have recorded between 600 and 1,000 child abductions (including attempted abductions) every year (Home Office 2002/03 to 2006/07). In 2004 a Home Office study examined the cases of 798 police reports of child abduction in England and Wales. (Newiss and Fairbrother, 2004: 1-6). These reported abductions included attempted abductions and parental abductions (where a parent removes a child without permission or legal rights to do so). This research found that just over half were attempted child abductions.
STRANGER ABDUCTIONSOf all recorded abductions and attempted abductions, a very small proportion were instances where a child was actually abducted by a stranger. Importantly, children who are abducted will not necessarily be considered missing, or reported as missing.
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2004 Home Office study (Newiss and Fairbrother, 2004: 1-6) found that, of the 798 police reports of child abduction and attempted child abduction in
England and Wales that year:
56 per cent or all reports involved a stranger
47 per cent of all reports were ‘attempted child abductions by a stranger’
9 per cent of all reports were successful child abductions by a stranger (n=68 ) PARENTAL ABDUCTIONSA 2004 Home Office study (Newiss and Fairbrother, 2004: 1-6) found that, of the 798 police reports of child abduction and attempted child abduction in England and Wales that year,
23 per cent involved abduction by a parent. Not all of these children will be the subject of a missing person report.
http://www.missingpeople.org.uk/media-centre/papers/detail.asp?dsid=603Police Operational Issues(...)
3. What types of cases are suitable for the site?
The only hard and fast rule is that the child must have been
under 18 at the time of going missing. The final decision about placing the child on the website will be made by the officer in the case based on an assessment of risk both to the child and to others. The earlier a child is put on the site, the earlier police forces and the public can have access to easily printable posters and information about the missing child.
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