Thanks finnian, great information and much appreciated.
I've heard the wait 24 or 48 hours before phoning the police too and that's here in the UK. When my daughter didn't come home from school one and & I phoned the school to see if she was still there and was told no, and then drove the routed between her school and home several times and couldn't find her, I phoned the police - wow must have been one of the most scariest incidents of my life, definitely as a mother. Turns out she was at school after all, words cannot describe what you go through and for some parents the ending is not good like mine was.
Good information on what to do and how to react is most important and yes telling your children to fight, and scream, shout, make noise too. I have to confess that I avoided the subject with mine as I didn't want to scare them and my mum had made me a bit paranoid about being snatched by a stranger so I didn't want to do the same to mine - so good useful information that isn't going to scare them, a light hearted video maybe that gets the message across without creating fear.
Thank you for sharing your information and the website - http://www.operationfoundsafe.org/
There's about 270 PIs on there! Not all have website addresses but still probably over 200 that do, so I'll compile that into a by state list and post soon. Do you know if all these work for free for kidnapped children?
I might well work through email some to join Steemit and see what sort of replies I get. If you have any suggestions in what to say to encourage them to join then please do share with me!
Thanks again for your post, so appreciated.
I run private-investigators.slack.com, and I mentioned the initiative in there to other PI's in my area. It's worth it to at least ask them. That organization, as far as I am aware, is volunteer only. If you see a person or firm's name listed, that means they will do child abduction cases for free.
Great thanks for the information Finnian.
I'll make a State by State list later today from http://www.operationfoundsafe.org/ as it's not a very user friendly format on their website.
Thanks for mentioning our project in your website, most appreciated and yes if we don't ask we don't know.