Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Tim Loughton (Conservative), on Monday, 10 March 2003, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 46 members in total.

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CHILD RESCUE ALERT (NO.1)

That this House congratulates Sussex Police and especially the work done by project leader DCI Martyn Underhill in setting up Child Rescue Alert, aimed at countering child abductions, the first scheme of its kind in Europe; notes that since phase one was launched in November last year, 15 local media companies have signed up to interrupt their programmes to broadcast information about missing children in addition to the use of bus and other traffic signs; welcomes the launch of phase two of the project last week. which will alert up to 600,000 people in Sussex via mobile phones through text messaging with mapping technology and urges everyone to register their mobile phones on www.communityalerts,co,uk; looks forward to further expansion of this excellent scheme on a permanent basis; and calls on the Home Secretary to roll out Child Rescue Alert to other police forces nationwide as soon as possible.

Amendments

The Early day motion has received an amendment.

CHILD RESCUE ALERT (NO.1) (856A1)

The Early day motion has received an amendment sponsored by Bob Russell (primary, Liberal Democrat) and tabled on Tuesday, 11 March 2003. It has been signed by 5 members in total.

after 'House' insert ', while recognising that a child is six times more likely to be murdered by a family member than a stranger,'.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

856 

856A1 

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Children Crime prevention Abduction Pilot schemes Police

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk