Amber Alert

Yesterday night around almost 10:00 pm, was watching Tivi, suddenly my phone rang with a very distinctive tone: A broken high tone for 10 seconds and added vibration A broken for about 10 seconds too. A few minutes later in a house crowded by ringing his phone my wife and children with the same tone and vibration, within adjacent. It turned out that we all have received the AMBER Alert, text (SMS) which gives the following information the name of the town (the scene), the license plate number, brand, year, and color of the car. What's AMBER Alert?


AMBER alerts stands for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response, named after a 9 year old girl, Amber Hagerman, who was kidnapped on January 13, 1996 while riding a bicycle in Arlington, Texas. A neighbor of his who had witnessed the kidnapping and called the police immediately conducted an intensive search. Four days after the abduction, Amber corpse was found in a canal flood. Killers and kidnappers Amber was never known and the case has not been solved until now.



After the events that police in every state (State) began to develop an emergency news distribution system for missing children / child abduction. The system is then in Standardize and applied nationally in 2002 by the White House. Before the authorities issuing the alert, there are several requirements that must be met: Law enforcement officers must have an confirmation that the kidnapping had been benar2 occurs, the child in kedaan danger, and have the risk of serious injury or risk of death, there was information that enough about the victim ( children), information abductor or abductors vehicles, and the age of the child must be 17 years or less. AMBER Alerts distributed via SMS (free), commercial radio stations, Internet radio, satellite radio, regular TV stations, and cable TV. Besides traffic signs at the Highway and electronic advertising billboard in the big stores are also used to help spread this alert is the whole community that near dg area or masyaratkat events in the area that is expected to become the destination kidnappers' car. Do not be surprised if one day you're watching TV in the US, suddenly just a TV show stopped a few minutes to broadcast Amber Alerts on all channels.