Targeted at maternal/child-care nurses, healthcare security administrators, law-enforcement officials, public-relations officers, and parents. Recommends actions to be taken to prevent an infant abduction from a healthcare facility or home, and outlines the steps to be taken if an abduction occurs.
Authored by a team of 38 professionals from local, state, and federal agencies, this guide outlines a standard of practice for law-enforcement officers handling missing-child cases whether runaways, thrownaways, family/nonfamily abductions, or when the circumstances of the disappearance are unknown.