Over 90 percent of abducted children who are killed are killed within 36 hours, according to an FBI study. A recent national study from Washington State claims over 90 percent of those killed are filled within the first 4 hours. The point is that the fuse in a predatory abduction situation is very short. Whether abducted children in your jurisdiction are found alive depends upon whether your department knows in advance what should be done and what resources will be used to do everything soon enough to be effective. This means national and state police chief and sheriff associations need to adopt protocols for the development of rapid response plans in suspected predatory abduction cases.
Local implementation involves identifying resources available to implement each procedure.
To comb out the snags, some have staged practice drills, as is sometime done to insure readiness in other emergency situations. Let us know your needs, and we will try to help directly when we can or by persuading others to help. The Jimmy Ryce Center for Victims of Predatory Abduction. All Rights Reserved.