If your child is missing, no matter what the reason, CALL 9-1-1 at once.  Do not wait, hesitate or feel embarrassed, call the Police IMMEDIATELY.

     In our experience, if you are calling for a parental abduction, you may be met by a variety of responses. We have seen law enforcement agencies react immediately with a precise almost military style response to a parental abduction, to law enforcement agencies responding that there is "nothing they can do". While this may not be exactly true, it is important for you as a parent to remain calm, cool and collected. Most law enforcement officers will tell you, a hysterical complainant will not get necessarily get their full attention.

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     The law enforcement agency MUST take a report and enter the missing child into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Computer system. The National Child Search Assistance Act, 42 USC SS 5779 and 5780 requires every federal, state and local law enforcement to enter each case of a missing child younger than the age of 18 to NCIC. The law also prohibits any waiting period before accepting a missing-child report. A custody order is not required to report a child missing or for the law enforcement agency to enter the child as missing to NCIC. Although this law exists, there are still a small number of law enforcement agencies that (unfortunately) refuse to enter the children into NCIC. PACRT has extensive history in working with law enforcement agencies and, if necessary, obtaining the assistance of other law enforcement agencies to make the necessary entries.

     If a non-custodial family member has abducted your child, do not expect that every law enforcement officer in a one hundred square mile area will be working exclusively on your case. While almost every law enforcement agency we have worked with has been extraordinary in the pursuit of cases of parental abduction, with recent budget cuts and staff cutbacks there is only a maximum number of work hours available. When a law enforcement agency has many crimes to investigate, they have to prioritize their work. While cases of parental abduction are very important, there are frequently other cases more important. As one officer told us, “I can see the day where we (law enforcement) will just not have the time to work these cases (parental abduction). We will have to rely on you to do most of the work, and hope that we can respond to assist when you find them (child).” This is why it is so important that PACRT works with the primary investigating law enforcement agency to assist them in the location, recovery and reunification of your child. We, at PACRT, pride ourselves with the reputation we have established and maintained with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies throughout the United States.

     Another important issue to remember is that while most law enforcement agencies in the United States are made of highly trained dedicated officers, most agencies (not withstanding major metropolitan departments) deal with maybe one or two parental abduction cases in ten or twenty years. While they are excellently trained on how to handle these cases, if they are not working them on a regular basis, they may not be aware of all the complexities of these types of cases. On a recent parental abduction case, when contacting the law enforcement agency for introduction purposes, the response received was “Oh my god! Someone that knows what they are doing. What do we do next?” Combining the experience of the TEAM members of PACRT, we have worked on well over one hundred cases of parental abduction.

WE DO BRING THEM HOME!