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AMBER Alert Best Practices for Public Information Officers...

AMBER Alert Best Practices Guide

APCO ANS 1.101: Standard for Public Safety...

Field Guide for Law Enforcement Officers

When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide

A Law Enforcement Guide on International Parental Kidnapping

AMBER Alert: Sample Process Map

Checklist for Public Safety Telecommunicators When...

Comprehensive Child Recovery Strategy Components

EAS Contact Information by State

Effective Use of NCIC: the National Crime Information...

FBI Child Abduction Response Plan (CARP) and First...

FCC Information on Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA)

Fusion Center Locations and Contact Information

General AMBER Alert Data Spreadsheet Template

Investigative Officer Response Checklist

IPAWS

Law Enforcement Policy and Procedures for Reports of...

NCMEC Publications for Law Enforcement & Community

Outcome Contributors Ecosystem During a Child Abduction...

Patrol First Response Checklist

Protecting At-Risk Tribal Youth

Rapid Emergency Child Alert System Framework: AMBER Alert...

Report on Alerting Tactics – Science and Technology...

Residential Child Abduction Cases

Rules of Professional Conduct for Alerts and Updates to the...

Sample Missing Child Data Form

Sample Neighborhood Canvass Form

Sample Roadblock Canvass Form

Sample Sex Offender Canvass Form

Sample Subject Data Form

Sex Trafficking at the U.S. Borders: Victim Characteristics

State Transportation Department Contacts

Supervisory Officer Response Checklist

Twitter and Facebook: for Developers

Virtual Command Center Tool – from the FBI’s...