Canadian Criminal Records Information Services

National Missing Children Services works in partnership with Revenue Canada's International Project Return, Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Department of Justice Canada. These four five departments form the "our missing children" program which operates as Canada's response centre for missing children and is located at the R.C.M.P. Headquarters in Ottawa.

National Missing Children Services:

• coordinates the investigation of cases of missing children nationally and internationally.
• administers a Travel program for the reunification of Canadian families.
• provides police and searching agencies with a computer age progression service for children that have been missing for more than two years.
• maintains and analyzes national and international data on the nature and scope of missing children,
• produces and distributes, both nationally and internationally, bulletins, reports, newsletters, resource materials, and the findings of research studies concerning missing children.
• maintains an Internet Website where national and international missing children cases are published.
• intercepts and recovers missing and abducted children crossing international borders.
• issues border lookouts on international, national and regional levels.
• trains law enforcement and other agencies in techniques of detecting child abductors and abducted children.
• provides advice and guidance to parents of abducted children.

For further information, contact the:

National Missing Children Services
P.O. Box 8885
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
K1G 3M8
Telephone: (613) 993-1525 Toll-free: 877-318-3576
Fax: (613) 993-5430
Internet: http://www.ourmissingchildren.gc.ca/

LINKS

• National Parole Board of Canada
• Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada
• Our Missing Children Program