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Help Establish a Plan in Your Area
| Founding an AMBER Plan Program
in your community is not difficult. It simply requires working with
the appropriate law-enforcement officials and local media leaders
to establish an effective program. Here is a model of how to start
an AMBER Plan Program in your community. |
AMBER Alert Kit • Training Video Authorization
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Contact your local law-enforcement
agency and ask for their public information officer. Ask the public
information officer if there is an organization that brings together
law-enforcement officers from various counties or cities on a regular
basis to discuss community needs.
For example many areas fall within the jurisdiction
of a Council of Governments, a law-enforcement association, or a
community policing-type organization. Ask for a contact name within
that organization.
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Contact the appropriate person within the
local law-enforcement association, and schedule a meeting to introduce
the idea of law-enforcement participation in starting a local AMBER
Plan Program.
Suggest that the appropriate person contact
the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to obtain
an AMBER Alert handbook and a copy of the AMBER Alert training tape.
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Once support is demonstrated by local law
enforcement for establishing a program in your community, work with
law enforcement to determine the most effective way to contact general managers of local radio and television stations about supporting the
program.
Suggest that the local law-enforcement agencies
hold a luncheon with local general managers to discuss the need
for a local program.
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Once you have gained support from local law-enforcement
agencies and some facets of the local media, suggest to law-enforcement that they set up a task force consisting of law enforcement, media
representatives, and include a community liaison. The Task Force will be responsible for developing and overseeing your local AMBER Plan. |
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