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For Parents.........
The following precautions are recommended to protect your children.
1. Don't leave your child alone in the car, yard, store, or other public place. Know where your child is at all times.
2. Teach your child who is a stranger. Make sure your child knows not to get involved with any stranger in anyway.
3. Teach your child how to use the telephone, including your name, home phone number, area code, local police, and fire department number in case of emergency.
4. Don't put your child's name outside of his or her clothes or books. That name tag puts an abductor on a first name basis.
5. Establish a secret code word with your children which must be used by anyone picking them up from school or other places.
6. Always pick up younger children in the school office or classroom. Don't ask them to meet you at the school entrance.
7. Be aware of what clothing your child wears to school each day so that you can give a detailed description if necessary.
8. Teach your child not to get involved in serious conversation on the way to or from school so they will be alert when crossing the street or near traffic.
9. Establish a safe home program in your community where children can go for help. Thus encourage neighbors to participate in such a block program.
10.When you have to entrust your child in someone else's care, be sure to know the person. Baby sitters should provide references.
11. Teach your children to never play alone in alleys, empty buildings, construction sites, or outside public restrooms . A child should never go places away from home alone. Always use the buddy system.
12. Teach your child it is not always wrong to say NO to an adult and why.
13. Teach your child the difference between "good" touches and "bad" touches and listen to them if the child tells you he or she doesn't want to go with a particular person - there might be a good reason.
14.Let the child know that they can come to you and tell you anything - and listen.
15. Begin your child's dental program at an early age for preventive care and because, like fingerprints, all mouths are unique.
16. Take pictures of your child every six months. Fingerprint your children for positive identification purposes.The physical appearance of a child will change significantly over a short of time and a child's appearance can be easily altered by changing hair color, etc. A fingerprint will remain the same for a lifetime and no two people have the same ones
For Youngsters.....
These tips are meant to help protect yourself:
WHILE ALONE AT HOME
* Don't permit anyone except relatives into your house
* Don't let a phone caller know that you are alone.
* Don't let anyone who comes to your door know that you are alone.
* Don't talk at length with anyone who comes to your door, nor with an unknown phone caller
* Keep the shades or drapes closed at night
* Keep all doors and windows locked .
* Write down the phone number of the Sheriff's Department, State Police, Local Police, the number of a neighbor and the phone number where your parents can be reached in an emergency.
BEFORE LEAVING HOME
* Tell your parents where you are going and when you expect to return home.
* If you change your plans while out, call your parents and tell them.
* If you are going to visit a friend, call and tell the friend what time you expect to arrive.
* Plan the safe route (well lighted).
* Carry change for an emergency telephone call.
WHILE OUT WALKING
* Avoid overgrown or wooded areas.
* Avoid dark streets, alleys, and parking lots.
* Avoid empty lots and buildings.
* Don't talk with strangers.
* Don't accept rides with strangers. (Don't hitch hike.)
* Don't go into a building with strangers.
* Don't permit strangers to touch or handle you.
* Don't go with strangers to help locate a certain person or address.
* Don't run errands for strangers.
* Don't "Hire Out" to work, sell, or distribute things for strangers.
* Get away from strangers who get too friendly in parks, movies, pools, etc.
* Don't accept candy or money from strangers.
* Don't accept pictures or printed material from strangers.
* Stay away from parked vehicles containing strangers.
IF SOMEONE GRABS YOU
* SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM
* Break free and run.
* Run to the nearest house or business place.
* Tell them what happened.
* Call your parents and the police.
* Remain there until your parents or police arrive.
* Try to remember the description of the person who bothered you.
WHILE OUT PLAYING
* Don't play around water wells or other deep holes.
* Don't play around electric transformers or touch power lines.
* Don't walk, play upon, or cross railroad tracks.
* Don't hitch hike on railroad cars.
* Don't climb structures such as coal tipples, power lines towers, or water towers.
* Don't play near ponds or rivers.
* Don't get into abandoned storage tanks, refrigerators, or iceboxes.
IF SOMEONE IS MISSING WHAT SHOULD YOU DO
First check the immediate vicinity thoroughly friends and neighbors residences and nearby relatives.Then call the police or sheriff immediately.
1.Tell them exactly what occurred.
2. While waiting for the authorities, get a complete description of the missing person.
(Physical description and what clothing was being worn)
3. Find a most recent photograph of the missing person
4. Don't disturb the immediate area where the person was last seen. Clues should be protected.
5. Don't handle any articles of clothing or anything the person may have touched. These should be protected for scent to be used by search dogs.
6. Find witness who may have seen the missing person prior to their disappearance .When authorities or a search team arrives, give them your fullest cooperation. Do not hold back any information. Search is an emergency and a life may be lost if we don't all cooperate.
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