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CART Why Have a Preplanned Response 58200 children are victims of nonfamily abductions each year 100 200 of those victims are stereotypical kidnappings Approximately ½ of these victims are sexually assaulted during the commission of the crime ID: 747498

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Slide1

Child Abduction Response Team(CART)Slide2

Why Have a Pre-planned Response?

58,200 children are victims of non-family abductions each year

100 – 200 of those victims are stereotypical kidnappings

Approximately ½ of these victims are sexually assaulted during the commission of the crime

Statistics from NISMART IISlide3

When a Child is Killed

49% are murdered in less than 1 hour

74% are murdered within 3 hours

91% are murdered within 24 days

99% are murdered within 7 days

Statistics from the Washington State Attorney General’s Report on Missing Child HomicidesSlide4

It is likely that the classic non-family abduction will require a multi-agency responseAre We Ready?Slide5

Child Abduction Response Team

A formalized multi-agency response to abducted, missing and endangered childrenSlide6

What is the Purpose of CART?

To establish a multi-agency child abduction team that will respond to abducted, missing and endangered child cases in a dynamic, timely and efficient mannerSlide7

Inter-Agency Approach

Shared financial and personnel resources

Provides expert resources to augment organized investigative efforts

Assures the victim family and community that all resources are utilized for the successful recovery of the childSlide8

Policy Issues

to

Be Addressed

Liability

CART resources and use of equipment

Mutual aid/concurrent jurisdiction

Officer injury

Use of force/litigation

PursuitsSlide9

Policy Issues

to

Be Addressed

(cont.)

Overtime

Command structure

Briefing of agency heads/confidentiality

Media releases

CART deployment length of time resources are made availableSlide10

Policy Issues

Once policy issues are resolved then they need to be documented

Tools for solidifying documentation include:

Memorandums of Understanding

Protocols

SOPs/Department Directives or General Orders

Letters of AgreementSlide11

Team ResponsibilitiesPhase I

Develop a response plan

Response criteria

Incident command structure

Lead agency designation/CART Coordinator

AssignmentsSlide12

Team ResponsibilitiesPhase II

Develop a best practice policy regarding

missing/abducted

children for recommendation to member agenciesSlide13

Other Responsibilities

Seek training for team members

Develop exercises for team training and testing

Respond to missing and abducted child cases as set forth by the response plan

Develop an after-action report on full scale responses to be presented to the agency heads of the member agenciesSlide14

Responsibilities (cont.)

Develop and maintain a response manual for use by investigative members of the team

Develop and maintain a resource manual to ensure immediate availability of resourcesSlide15

Proven ModelTraining programs from January 2006 through  December 2017 yielded the following:

279 active teams representing 48 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Canada

When deployed, CART has proven to be a successful investigative tool in the safe recovery of childrenSlide16

How Do We Bring CART

to

Our

Community?

Leadership: Ensure Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

commitment

Establish a Steering/Oversight

committee

Meet regularly until the

team

is established

Designate a

team leader

who will work diligently to see the process through

Support the efforts of

team membersSlide17

Advice from Successful CART Programs

Be flexible

Choose motivated and committed people

Do not give up working on your plan

Do not reinvent the wheel

Check your ego at the doorDo not put all your eggs in one basket

EducateSlide18

Lessons LearnedKeep the focus on finding the child

Have a plan and use the plan

Realize it is a work in progress

Do not delay in deploying your teamSlide19

Contact Information

AMBER Alert Training and

Technical Assistance Program

A U.S.

Department of Justice Initiative

Administere

d through the

National Criminal Justice Training Center of

Fox

Valley Technical College

Phone:

877-

71-AMBER (877-712-6237)

Email:

askamber@fvtc.edu

Website

:

www.amberadvocate.org