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When Was The Procedure For Finding Missing Children Changed?
I remember either reading something or seeing on tv that at one point children who went missing were treated like adults who went missing. So you'd have to wait (I think) an entire day before the cops would even bothering looking for your child. I was just wondering if anybody knows when the procedure for find children was changed so that way kids would be found sooner.
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- BruceLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
That sounds like something you saw on TV. There is no time frame. You can report someone missing as soon as they meet the criteria established by the National Crime Information Center. That can be found at the bottom of page 2 at this link:
Source(s): Law enforcement since 1991 - Anonymous9 years ago
Changed? Never. What you saw or read was the fantasy of the writer, not fact.
29 years a cop and never heard of such a thing as treating a missing child "like an adult" as you put it.
Even as a child myself in the 1950's I remember the police doing an all out search for a neighbor kid who went missing, turned out to be at a friends.
BTW if an adult has medical or mental problems or there is any evidence of foul play there is no such thing as a wait. The report is done immediately and a search is started.
If an adult has obviously left voluntarily, like took their clothing and such, then there also is no 24 hours for a report since there will never be a report. They are not missing.
