National Centre for Missing and exploited Chldren visit

Yesterday was my first officially set up visit, I had arranged to go to the National Centre for missing and exploited children and see Caroline Humer one of the operatives there.
Its a very impressive building but like most of the buildings and venues has no parking .

Alexandria itself is a colonial area of DC and has a very European feel about it.





I first Patrica Williams who is a case manager, she explained the way the calls are logged when received and what management plan there is , how the files are retained open until they are advised that the  person has been found.
http://www.missingkids.com/home

** An interesting point to note is hat the Centre here is federally funded , it provides free training to police in a variety of subjects including profiling ,crime management, etc. This is provided by federally funded depts such as those below.
Whilst there is not direct UK equivalent , Missing people, are a charity who receive no funding at all from government.https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/

Then Janice Mertz who is a supervisory special agent , talked about the role that the FBI have within the centre, how, they look at sexual exploitation and Crimes against Children , she spoke about some of the different teams that they have that are deploy able and available to police depts within a short period of time, this includes full search support in terms of numbers, equipment ,electronic support on the ground.

Frank Conner, from the US marshal service , gave a comprehensive talk about the role of this dept , they are given the names of "offender" or runaways, this may include a sex offender who has breached bail by being in company of a child,or crossing a state border, and they go and get them, simple as that really they will actively hunt/pursue offenders across state lines and borders ( it appears Mexico is a heading point for a lot of the offenders)

I also met Robert G Lowery Jr who is the current Executive director of the organisation, he is an incredibly knowledge individual who enthusiasm is evident , they are as a dept at the forefront of developmental tactics and advice for searcher's and law enforcement (police) in all areas of child missing person search. They are about to release a document (which although i have is not on their site yet) relating to Autistic search which is very insightful and will be of benefit to all.