If Your Child is Missing:

Act immediately if you believe that your child is missing.

• If your child is missing from home:
  • Search the house, checking closets, piles of laundry, in and under beds, inside old refrigerators, hope chests, toy chests--wherever a child might crawl or hide. If you cannot find your child, immediately call your local law-enforcement agency.
• If your child disappears in a store:
  • Notify the store manager or security office. Then immediately call your local law-enforcement agency. Many stores have a Code Adam plan of action where employees must mobillize to look for the missing child.
• Notifying local law-enforcement:
  • Explain that your child is missing and that your child has been identified at a MOCHIP Child ID event. The tools that you received in the yellow MOCHIP packet will provide law-enforcement with digital pictures and information compatible with the "Amber Alert" program.
  • Tell law-enforcement when you noticed your child was missing and what the child was wearing
  • Request that your child's name and indentifying information be immediately entered into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Missing Person File.

 For additional information about child-safety topics, please visit the following Web sites:

• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) -- http://www.missingkids.com/ or contact them at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678)
• MCGruff -- http://www.mcgruff.org/
• Safe Kids -- http://www.safekids.com/

To contact the Missouri State Highway Patrol in the event of an emergency:

• 1-800-525-5555
• From your cell phone *55