Missing Persons Procedures

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III. Reporting Procedures for Missing Persons
UAMS Police Department employees and/or officers handling non-critical or critical missing cases shall:
1. Interview the reporting person(s) to obtain the following information:
a. The health, habits, history, and description of the missing person
b. Names and addresses of friends and relatives where the missing person may be found
c. The missing person’s date of birth
d. The missing person’s social security number and/or student identification number

2. Prepare a general broadcast to be transmitted immediately by UAMS Hospital Operating and Control Center.

3. Reporting officers shall contact the resident’s House staff member, as soon as practicable, to see if they know of the missing student’s …show more content…
Reporting officers shall check with the emergency room staff of UAMS Hospital to ascertain if the missing person has been admitted as a patient either by name or listed as a “John/Jane Doe.”

5. If all checks above (2 and 3) prove negative; the shift supervisor must notify the Lieutenant of the Uniformed Division, as soon as practicable. The on duty Lieutenant will be responsible for notifying Chief of Police, and the on duty investigator.

6. If all checks above (2 and 3) prove negative, the reporting officer and/or shift supervisor shall request through the UAMS Police Department dispatcher that a Arkansas Crime Information Center (ACIC) terminal message be sent to the local police department for assistance, and the UAMS dispatcher will take the information and enter the missing person(s) as required by law.

7. Notify and coordinate with any other law enforcement agencies, as deemed necessary, based on information received.

8. The UAMS reporting officer should make a notation in his/her report and in their notebook, of the time, date and name of the person(s) contacted when the required checks are made and that information should be added to the Incident Report or a Supplemental Report. The officer should also note the time and date the complainant was advised of the results of the …show more content…
The AMBER Plan, which stands for America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response, is only activated by law enforcement and it is intended for serious child abduction cases. This plan is not used for runaways or family abduction cases unless the circumstances are life threatening to the child. When it is reported to our department that a juvenile has been abducted and that the circumstances surrounding the abduction indicate that the juvenile is in serious danger of bodily harm or death, we will notify the local Police/ Sheriff Department, request that an officer and a supervisor respond to the scene, and they will notify the Pulaski County Youth Division to determine if the AMBER Alert activation criteria have been
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