Amber Alert is the national warning system by urgent child missing and child kidnapping. With this system the police can warn whole Netherlands - via SMS, TV-screens, websites, e-mail, instant messaging, TV and radio - by a missing of a kidnapping. At this way the change of a good outcome will be increased. Everyone can come forward voluntary of the Amber Alert.
Amber Alerts are from now on spread via Twitter. In the messages there will be a link to the photo of the missing p
eople.The aim of this new way of communication is to show the photo of the kidnapped child to much as possible people. Bert Hoen, director of the software company ‘Netpresenter, says that in a official statement. Netpresenter is the company behind the Amber Alert and thinks Twitter is exceptionally suited for this.
Especially for people who travel a lot and keep up Twitter with their mobile phone, they can deliver a useful contribution by tracing missing people. Posters of the missing people will be sent by e-mail.
That posters can be printed immediately and can be disperse by stores etcetera.
Since the launching in November 2008 about three thousand organizations and people are member of the national alarm system Amber Alert.
