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National Mandate and Mission
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s® (NCMEC)
mission is to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation; help
find missing children; and assist victims of child abduction and sexual
exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them.
NCMEC was established in 1984 as a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization
to provide services nationwide for families and professionals in the
prevention of abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children.
Pursuant to its mission and its congressional mandates (see 42
U.S.C. §§ 5771
et seq), NCMEC
- Serves as the national resource center and information clearinghouse
for missing and exploited children
- Operates a national 24-hour
toll-free hotline, 1-800-THE-LOST® (1-800-843-5678),
to intake reports of missing children and receive leads about ongoing
cases
- Operates the CyberTipline, the “9-1-1 for the Internet,” that
the public and electronic service providers may use to report Internet-related
child sexual exploitation
- Provides information about services
and Federal programs for missing and exploited children and their families
- Coordinates public and private programs that locate, recover, or
reunite missing children with their families
- Provides technical
assistance and training to individuals and law-enforcement agencies
in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of cases
involving missing and exploited children
- Provides assistance
to families and law enforcement agencies in locating and recovering
missing and exploited children, both nationally and internationally
- Uses public records databases to provide analytical support and
technical assistance to law enforcement agencies in locating and recovering
missing and exploited children and abductors
- Tracks the incidence
of attempted child abductions
- Provides technical assistance
and training to law enforcement in identifying and locating non-compliant
sex offenders
- Provides forensic technical assistance to law
enforcement
- Works with law enforcement and the private sector
to reduce the distribution of child pornography over the Internet
- Operates
a child victim identification program to assist law enforcement in
identifying victims of child pornography
- Develops and disseminates
programs and information about Internet safety and the prevention of
child abduction and sexual exploitation
- Facilitates the deployment
of the National Emergency Child Locator Center during periods of national
disasters
- Disseminates information about innovative and model
programs, services, and legislation that benefit missing and exploited
children
- Provides an annual report on the number of missing
children reported to NCMEC to the Department of Justice’s Office
of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
- Provides guidance
to state and local governments and nonprofit agencies on how to use
school records and birth certificates to locate missing children
- Deploys
Team Adam, a rapid response and support system comprised of retired
law enforcement officers, to provide on-site technical assistance to
local law enforcement agencies investigating cases of child abduction
and sexual exploitation
Last revised October 14, 2008
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