"Alerta Sofía", the new search system for children and missing adolescents "Diario La Capitale de Mar del Plata

The national government launched the program Friday "Sofia Alert" to improve the "National Coordination for Urgent Research and Localization" of missing children and adolescents whose lives are exposed to "imminent high risk", as published today in the Official newspaperand through which alerts will be broadcast on social networks such as Facebook o Twitter or search engines Internet.

The program will operate under the Federal Missing and Missing Persons Search System (SIFEBU), created in 2016, with the aim of "finding solutions to the problem underlying the disappearance of NNyA, it is necessary to set up a Early warning system in Argentinain order to provide a mechanism for the correct and urgent dissemination and dissemination of relevant publicly available information on the most serious cases of disappearance ".

As reported by the Ministry of Security, the program seeks to "provide research units with the conceptual criteria and technical tools needed to use this resource".

For this, as indicated in Official newspaper, the program "had the support of International Center for Missing and Exploited Children -ICMEC-, with whom a cooperation agreement was signed in 2016, being from that moment a member of the Global Network of this international organization, with 32 other countries ".

The "Sofia Alert" is the local version of "Amber Alert" used in more than 40 countries and appointed for Amber Hagerman, a girl missing and murdered Texas, United Statesin 1996.

In Argentina, the name of Sofía Herrera, the three-year-old girl disappeared in a campsite Great River, in Land of Fire, in September 2008.

So, Sofia Alert "His goal is to reduce the violation of the rights of missing children"And that way will try to" endow National State of an appropriate tool to provide a quick and effective response", Says the text of the resolution of the ministry.

According to information provided by the Ministry of SecurityTo implement this program, an agreement has been signed with the social network Facebook to broadcast the alerts there. In any case, the official bulletin states that messages will also be sent Twitter and search engines Internet.