Child Shield U.S.A.
OUR MISSION
TheChild Shield mission is twofold. Our primary goal is to reduce the alarming numbers of lost, missing, kidnapped, and runaway children in America. To that end, our child safety program provides parents with an array of easy-to-follow educational materials that will empower their children with important knowledge that can help to prevent a tragedy. This proactive, educational part of the Child Shield service features our unique "Safety Seven Poster" and "Play It Safe" Coloring Book. These materials provide ongoing reinforcement and help children to retain the important safety information they've learned from our "Guide To Safer Children".
The second goal of Child Shield is to offer victim parents and law enforcement agencies a "one stop source" for immediate assistance in distributing information that is vital to the recovery of a missing child. Whenever a Child Shield registered child becomes missing, we respond immediately by providing local and far-reaching assistance to the child's family and to the law enforcement agency handling the investigation.
Upon being notified of a child's disappearance, Child Shield will contact the investigating police department and offer assistance by duplicating videotapes and posters bearing the child's image and distributing them to their choice of any or all destinations included in our unique database of hundreds of law enforcement agencies, dozens of missing children's service organizations, and scores of national news media contacts. Additionally, Child Shield will send videotapes and posters to any additional destinations the investigating authorities may request. All this is done at no cost to the family or the police department. We also put up a $50,000 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of person(s) responsible and recovery of the child. In addition, we alert "International Investigators Inc.", who immediately put a private investigator on the case. This organization has been in business since 1960. They are available in the U.S. and over 70 foreign countries. Child Shield purchases a minimum of $2500 of services, per case, to help find the missing child.
Our facilities enable us to duplicate more than one hundred (100) identification videotapes and more than four hundred posters per hour. Within minutes of Child Shield being notified of a missing child, the missing child's videotape and poster will be on their way to every states' Missing Children's Clearinghouses across America, the State Police, and the F.B.I. With the same speed, we can also provide videotapes and posters to a variety of missing children's service organizations and the production departments of scores of nationally-syndicated and network television programs. Child Shield can also post full-color, high-resolution missing child posters on its website. This allows a missing child's poster to be downloaded and printed by law enforcement agencies and others across America (and the World) within minutes.
We at Child Shield are always upgrading our database by identifying and securing additional law enforcement and media contacts in order that we may even better serve the needs of America's children and their parents in the coming months and years. Our commitment to stay on the leading edge of technology will have us providing video images, posters, and other data on missing children to more and more destinations with even greater speed and efficiency.
Child Shield has been in business since 1990. We have registered more than 1,500,000 copyrighted child protection kits. The kits include an education and prevention program as well as video and photo registration with an emergency response service. As of the printing of this information, Child Shield has only had to use their emergency response system twice to help find a child. In both cases, the children were recovered unharmed. Child Shield is dedicated to help reduce the alarming number of missing children through a proven prevention program first and an effective recovery system second.
THE FOLLOWING STATISTICS WERE PROVIDED BY THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN.
In 15 of the past 18 years there has been an increase in the number of missing children.
The increase in missing children since 1982 is 468%.
Most kidnappings are done by luring children to a vehicle rather than taking them by force. About half are 4 to11 years old. The others were 12 years or older. 74% were girls.
The F.B.I. receives over 2000 missing child reports every day.
Another child in the U.S. becomes missing every 40 seconds, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Here's What Members of America's Law-Enforcement Community are saying about Child Shield.
"Not until Child Shield has there been a program of prevention, education, and recovery of this quality and capability...a true safety net for parents and a very real investment in their peace of mind. In fact, I believe so strongly in the value of this program and its potential to increase the safety of our children that I personally recommend it to every parent.
"Frank K., highly decorated thirty-year police veteran and founder of a regional CRIMESTOPPERS program. Frank was also honored with his state's "Crime Prevention Officer of the Year" award in 1989.
"I found the entire Child Shield package most beneficial to secure the safety of our most precious possessions, our children."
Isabelle V., Police Missing Children Unit Coordinator.
"In my years as a police officer, I’ve investigated many cases of missing and runaway children. The problem I came across most often was receiving outdated photographs of the missing child from the parents. One cannot identify a child's characteristics from a photograph. I feel the Child Shield service is very valuable to parents in the prevention and recovery of missing children. I also believe that the service will aid law enforcement agencies in obtaining more accurate information to assist in their investigations."
Duane D., Police Officer, Juvenile Justice Division, Ret., Ca.
EXCLUSIVE BENEFITS
The only missing child prevention program in the country developed over 13 years. Educate your child without overwhelming or scaring them.
The only missing child prevention program in the country with over 13 years of statistics proving it works. The only anonymous video/photo registration service in the country.
The only video/photo emergency response service in the country with a database of over 16,000 agencies.
At no cost to you, we post a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of person(s) responsible and recovery of your child.
If a CHILD SHIELD registered child becomes missing, we immediately hire a private investigator, at our cost, to help the parents and police find your child.
This service expires every two years. The initial registration fee for each child is $50 per child and $50 per child every two years after the initial registration.
The service is designed so that you shoot your own children's videotape. This is so that you are comfortable with Child Shield and the security that comes with knowing that a "stranger" is not videotaping your child. The Child Shield Registration Service comes with complete instructions that will teach you how to properly shoot your child's identification videotape in the privacy of your own home using any camcorder. (No camcorder, no problem! Everybody has at least one friend or relative who would gladly lend his or her camcorder for something this important.)
When videotaping your child, there is only one child allowed per tape, please! Each tape is given its own identification number, which corresponds to the child whose image is on that tape. This eliminates any risk that a wrong child's video could ever be transferred and distributed.
All Child Shield programs include protected storage of each child's videotape to insure an immediate response whenever a child becomes lost or missing. To further insure security, the exact storage location of the videotape is known only to Child Shield's executive officers, its insurance company, and the chief legal counselor for the law firm that represents Child Shield.
Child Shield does not receive or store data or information on any child. A secret code number known only to you, the parent, identifies each child’s videotape. We have no way of knowing the identity of any registered child unless the parent reports the child missing. Even if it were possible for someone to locate and gain access to our storage facilities it would in no way jeopardize the welfare of any of the children on the videotapes that are stored there. With only the secret code number to go on, one would have to search every home in America to find any of Child Shield's registered children. Even so, we still have in place appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access and to safeguard the tapes from other hazards, such as fire and flooding. (Frankly, you put your child in far more jeopardy every time you have a roll of film developed. Not only does everyone that works for the store and film lab have access to your children's picture, they have your name, address, and phone number too. In addition, no states have laws against videotaping in public. Why would anyone risk breaking in to steal an anonymous video when they could go to the park or mall and make their own, legally?
There are no other programs or services like Child Shield; Child Shield is the only service of its kind in the country.
There are many other child safety programs around. While most give some benefit, none offer the benefits of the Child Shield service. Foremost, we have the ONLY missing child prevention program in the country with over 10 years of statistics proving it works. A child registered with us is much less likely to become missing than one that's not. The "Amber Alert" is a good program and varies from community to community. What is not publicized about the "Amber Alert" is that less than 1% of the lost, missing, or runaway child cases in America actually qualify to use it. The Blockbuster program is a great way to have your video made for free, however, they do not provide any assistance if your child becomes missing, and do not have a proven prevention program. (For the record, we have nothing against any of these programs. In fact, we applaud them for their efforts. It's just that we feel in today's world parents need a more comprehensive one-stop source for protecting their child and helping out in an emergency.)
Services such as photos and I.D. cards identification are not effective tool for law enforcement. Besides, we don't think it's logical for a parent to pay $8 to $10 for someone to type out a card with information that you wouldn’t forget about your own child. Additionally, these cards often include a thumbprint. This is of no real value unless the child is first recovered to see if the prints match. Sadly, this form of identification often ends up being used to identify a child, rather than helping to reunite a living child with their parents.
After you have paid your child’s registration fee, there is absolutely no extra cost for this service! All videotapes and posters are free; they are a part of the service. We will always consult with the law enforcement agencies for their input as to where they would like the videos and photos distributed.
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Kidnapped and Missing Children and Federal Agencies
State Sex Offender Registry Websites
Kidnappings
Parental Kidnappings
Seeking Information
The Office of Children's Issues
FBI Field Office.
