The Police Expert Network on Missing Persons (PEN-MP) in Europe has grown to include more than 80 members in 30 countries. The network is part of AMBER Alert Europe and recently added eight new law enforcement members from Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, North-Macedonia, and Serbia. The PEN-MP is the official European missing persons police network, consisting of police experts in the field of missing persons.

The PEN-MP is also connecting organizations in different countries on a project to analyze cold- and long-term missing persons cases. The network will work with different police academies and universities all over the world. Four disciplinary teams are now analyzing an attempted child homicide and long-term missing person’s case in Germany. More cases are expected to be analyzed in 2021.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has asked 175 retired law enforcement officers to take a fresh look at long-term missing children cases. The Project ALERT deployment is the largest ever that NCMEC has undertaken. The volunteer retired officers will meet with investigators and relatives of more than 750 children who have been missing from 6 months to as many as 61 years.