If Your Child is Missing:
Act immediately if you believe that your child is missing.
- If your child is missing from home:
- Search the house, checking closets, piles of laundry, in and under beds, inside old refrigerators, hope chests, toy chests--wherever a child might crawl or hide. If you cannot find your child, immediately call your local law-enforcement agency.
- If your child disappears in a store:
- Notify the store manager or security office. Then immediately call your local law-enforcement agency. Many stores have a Code Adam plan of action where employees must mobillize to look for the missing child.
- Notifying local law-enforcement:
- Explain that your child is missing and that your child has been identified at a MOCHIP Child ID event. The tools that you received in the yellow MOCHIP packet will provide law-enforcement with digital pictures and information compatible with the "Amber Alert" program.
- Tell law-enforcement when you noticed your child was missing and what the child was wearing
- Request that your child's name and indentifying information be immediately entered into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Missing Person File.
For additional information about child-safety topics, please visit the following Web sites:
To contact the Missouri State Highway Patrol in the event of an emergency:
- 1-800-525-5555
- From your cell phone *55
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