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Iowa Missing Person Training Curriculum

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INTRODUCTION

Approximately 2 years ago I received information regarding grant monies that were available for state clearinghouses through the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Immediately my thoughts went to the need for training in the area of missing persons. \-Vith new laws that had been passed and improved resources that were available to law enforcement agencies I felt the need for training in these areas to be very important. I not only wanted to be able to provide this training in the area of missing persons, I wanted to be able to make it available to all Iowa law enforcement agencies. I realized that many agencies did not have the funds to pay for the registration, travel or overnight stays for their personnel. I also realized there were those agencies that would not be able to allow personnel to be gone for any great length of time, due to the fact they were either understaffed or one man departments. The decision was made to apply for the grant monies and bring training to as many law enforcement agencies as possible by dividing the state into sixteen different regions and presenting a one day seminar in each region.

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Missing Persons: Volunteers Supporting Law Enforcement

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The national Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS) Program was established in 2002 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) in partnership with the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The VIPS Program provides support and resources for agencies interested in developing or enhancing a volunteer program and for citizens who wish to volunteer their time and skills with a community law enforcement agency. The program’s ultimate goal is to enhance the capacity of state, local, and tribal law enforcement to utilize volunteers through the provision of no-cost resources and assistance. The program’s Web site, www.policevolunteers.org, serves as a gateway to information for law enforcement agencies and citizens interested in law enforcement volunteer programs. The program offers a host of resources including a directory of law enforcement volunteer programs, a library of sample documents, publications addressing specific elements and issues related to volunteer programs, a model policy on volunteers, an e-newsletter, educational videos, a moderated online discussion group,

Additional Resource: National Neighborhood Watch – A Division Of The National Sheriffs' Association

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Missing Persons: Children in the Tax Treatment of Marriage

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Using the Tax Code to help children has become an extremely. popular idea both with the public and among politicians. Current proposals to help children by use of the Tax Code, however, ignore the fact that one of the best ways to help children is to promote stable marriages. This Article argues that we should attempt to find ways to use the Tax Code to contribute to the stability of marriages with children. Such use of the Tax Code would represent a radical departure not only from current proposals, but also from historic tax legislative practice and academic theories of taxation. It is firmly based, however, on a large body of social science research on the effects of family structure on children.' Recent research leaves no doubt that children growing up with both parents enjoy significant advantages that help them meet the challenges of childhood and adolescence and develop into healthy, well-adjusted, and productive adults. Children who do not grow up with two parents...

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Missing Children Case Management

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Most children who are not where parents expect them to be, are "missing" for a very short period of time and reappear on their own, with no evidence of foul play. However, some children are missing against their will. The great majority of those children, even though they have undergone a traumatic experience, are not harmed seriously and are returned home alive. Many of them are taken by estranged parents or other family members. A small group is victimized by more predatory abductors, who want to make money by ransoming the child, to sexually molest the victim, andlor to kill the child. The list of children who are abducted and killed each year by someone who is not a family member is relatively small, compared to the number of missing children or to other types of child murder. Because of their rarity among criminal homicides their complexity, emotion and high...

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