National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s® (NCMEC) mission is to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation; help find missing children; and assist victims of child abduction and sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them. NCMEC was established in 1984 by Congress as a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization to provide services nationwide for families and professionals in the prevention of abducted, endangered, and sexually exploited children.

NCMEC maintains a 24/7 hotline for law enforcement, victim families and the public to report new cases, report sightings of missing children, report incidents of child pornography and other inappropriate Internet activity targeting children as well handling requests for information and literature.

NCMEC has a Chief Executive Officer training program for law enforcement senior staff and offers free technology to law enforcement to help agencies with managing leads, creating posters of missing children, wanted persons, rewards and many other uses for local distribution and for email and fax distribution.

In fact all the services NCMEC provides to law enforcement and families are free of charge.