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