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In Hungary, missing of 25 thousand persons are reported annually, from these people 14 thousand are under 18 years. Is this number high or low?
To tell this, we have to look at two things:
In the European Union, missing of 250 thousand under-18 persons is reported annually to the authorities.
The phenomenon is not a recent one and it seems that this number increased almost unnoticed for the authorities such big that management of it on an EU level became unavoidable.
Detailed and accurate Union-wide statistics can not be found on the internet, therefore we can only show data from some articles and studies.
We emphasize that the data of different points of view are suitable only for conclusions of informative nature. (The Hungarian, Irish, American and French data can be regarded sufficiently accurate and several sources also report identical numbers. The EU data are inconsistent with gross data of the individual countries.)
Based on the statistics, the following order can be established:
1 |
USA | 0.27% |
2 |
England | 0.22% |
3 |
Ireland | 0.18% |
4 |
Canada | 0.15% |
5 |
Hungary | 0.14% |
6 |
France | 0.094% |
Without analyzing the reasons we can state that:
Population |
Endangeredness | ||
| England | Around 140 thousand | 61 million |
0.22% |
| Germany | 50 thousand | 80 million |
0.062% |
| France | 42 thousand in 2004, 62 thousand in 2011. This is a 20% increase. | 66 million |
0.094% |
| Belgium | From 1,500 it increased to 3,000 in 10 years. | 11 million |
0.027% |
| Ireland | In 2003 it was still 3,900 and increased to 8,500 by 2011. This is a 350% increase. | 4.6 million |
0.18% |
| Greece | There were 306,000 calls on the Greek “blue line”, an insignificant amount of which required direct intervention of the authorities. 10% of the missing children have been found. | 11.3 million |
|
| Italy | annually 1,100 With all this, they are one of the noisiest to claim that the government should do something against the unbearable situation. | 61 million |
0.0018% |
| Hungary | From the 24 thousand missing persons 14 thousand are under 18 years. At present, number of those whose whereabouts are unknown for the authorities since years, increased to about 1,200. | 10 million |
0.14% |
| Czech Republic | Annually about 10 thousand | 10.5 million |
0.095% |
| USA | The 1982’s 150 thousand increased to 8,500 thousand by 2012, showing about a 400% increase. | 315 million |
0.27% |
| Canada | 50 thousand | 33 million |
0.15% |
| Australia | 25 to 30 thousand | 23 million |
0.13% |
| Brazil | 40 thousand | 191 million |
0.021% |
| European Union | 250 thousand | 500 million |
0.05% |
FBI
FBI developed an application for iPhones by which parents can immediately report missing of their child on an emergency number. Speed is a highly critical factor: experience shows that the likelihood to find the child is the highest in the first 24 hours, in the second 24 hours it is lower and it is very low after 72 hours.
The application informs parents on what to do when there is an event of missing and the form can be filled in advance which includes the child’s and the parents’ data and pictures. If there is a danger, only this prefilled data sheet should be sent in SMS to the preprogrammed phone number.
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In addition to this, in its home page it calls the attention of parents to the importance of TP card preparation. Attention: In June 2006
EU
In June 2007 a phone number available in all countries was established (116000) to report the missing children.
The central organization in Europe dealing with problems of the missing children is the Missing Children Europe. This organization is an administrative rather than an operative one, it deals with rules and conciliation between the member states.
It seems that in making the necessary steps the European Union lags behind the USA by a loose 15 years, while it nearly reached the USA as to the number and danger level of the missing child cases.
You can read the speech of EU commissioner Vivian Reding on the Missing Children’s World Day (January 2013) about the 116000 call number (created 6 years ago) and its results.
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-13-503_en.htm
The USA was the first to react to the danger related to the missing child cases. A law on establishing the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children was passed in the Congress in 1984; this organization plays a coordinating role towards the local authorities and non-governmental organizations by watching the FBI data base.
In 1996 it founded a Child Abduction Emergency system that sends out an alarm in every available communication method (commercial radio broadcasts, TV stations, advertising boards, SMS, motorway traffic boards, etc.). It is also referred to as the Amber Alert.
In 1997 the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) launched a campaign called National Child Identification Program, the aim of which was that parents should have a TP card prepared of their child. That is kept at home, but provided at the police’s disposal if required, helping the efficiency of the police work to a great extent. Those who launched the program did not expect the popularity, either, that they achieved for today: more than 32 million parents have TP cards prepared of their children.
The latest result:
Ford announced, jointly with the United Automobile Workers: It provides a “Child ID Kit” free of charge for 225,000 Ford employees, by which they can prepare a TP card of their children.