Child alerting in the EU: Saving the lives

Child alerting in the EU: Saving the lives
of endangered missing children
Wednesday October 15th, 2014
9:00 – 18:00
Organized by
AMBER Alert Europe and Member of European Parliament Sophie in ‘t Veld
Location
Morning sessions – Sofitel Brussels Europe, Place Jourdan 1, 1040 Brussels
Afternoon sessions – European Parliament, Rue Wiertz 60, Brussels
Introduction
The goal of AMBER Alert Europe – a non-profit initiative for and by police experts – is to further
improve police cooperation within the EU with regards to child alerting and endangered missing
children, as well as to help member states build and further improve their child alert/ AMBER Alert
systems. Of course with the ultimate goal of finding more endangered missing children in time.
This full day conference supports this goal by bringing police experts from the different EU member
states together, as well as topic owners from organisations such as Europol, the EP and EC, to help
create an informal network in addition to the formal lines that have been put into place, share
expertise on the topic and help speed up the creation and further improvement of the child alert
systems in the different EU member states.
Preliminary Program (Morning Sessions)
Time
9:00h – 13:00h
Location:
Sofitel Brussels Europe, Place Jourdan 1, Brussels (Belgium)
9:00h
Welcome and introduction – Frank Hoen, AMBER Alert Europe
9:45h
Expert sessions - Stream 1
Topics
1.
Crossing borders to find a missing child in danger
2.
EU regulations in support of child alerting
3.
Police workshop: behavioral science in police work
Speakers include
Caroline Humer
International Center of Missing and Exploited Children, US
Petra Binkova
Czech Ministry of the Interior
Charlie Hedges
CEOP, UK Police
Carlo Schippers
Dutch National Police
Michael Dejoze
Representative Province de Liège, Euregio Meuse-Rhine
11:15h
Expert sessions - Stream 2
Topics
1.
EU citizen sourcing for the missing: engaging the European public
2.
Innovative technology and new media to help find the missing
3.
‘You’ve only got 3 hours’: Best practices in saving more abducted and
endangered missing children
Speakers include
Miroslaw Kaczmarek
Polish Police
Irma Schijf
Dutch National Police
Goswijn Thijssen
Google
Frank Hoen
AMBER Alert Netherlands
Lars Bruhns
Initiative Vermisste Kinder Germany
Preliminary Program (Afternoon Sessions)
Time
13:30h – 18:00h
Location:
European Parliament, Rue Wiertz 60, Brussels (Belgium)
13:45h
Welcome – Frank Hoen, AMBER Alert Europe
14:00h
Presentations
Topics
1.
Everyone on the alert: a pan-European AMBER Alert Plan with respect for
privacy
2.
The police perspective to kids going missing in the EU
3.
The latest evidence-based research on the topic of endangered missing
children
4.
Sharing of experiences and findings of the morning expert sessions
5.
Building a coordinated European response to child abductions: where do
we go from here?
Speakers include
Sophie in t Veld
Member of European Parliament
Caroline Humer
International Center of Missing and Exploited Children, US
Wil van Gemert
Europol
17:00h
Networking drinks