Amber Alert in court about a call for tenders

Amber Alert goes to court because the National Police wants to sound the alarm for missing children. The department is concerned that the detection of children is endangered.

According to founder Frank Hoen, the trial, which will take place on November 23, is primarily aimed at determining whether the police will exercise due diligence in this call for tenders. 19659002] Grapperhaus' s Minister of Justice and Security wrote in a letter to the House in February that the call for tenders was legally required, with the state putting in each year 1 million dollars. in Amber Alert. According to him, the current contract between the police and the company that runs the Amber Alert system contravenes the law on public procurement

. Grapperhaus also stresses the need to innovate technologically to find missing children as quickly as possible. Calls for tenders make it possible to compare proposals from different parties in this area.

Range

Amber Alert was established at the end of 2008 as a citizens' initiative, which was also attended by the police and the Ministry of Justice. The system now has three million volunteer participants and a reach of more than 12 million Dutch. When Dutch police fear that a child will be kidnapped or missing for life, a national Amber alert is issued. This has happened 25 times in recent years.

If there is no danger of death, or if a report is issued in part of the Netherlands, a missing child alert will be issued. This has happened 981 times since its foundation. Amber Alert has received an annual grant from the Department of Justice and Security ranging from eight to nine tons since 2011.

Flat Computer Service

"This system now works perfectly," said founder Frank Hoen. "We are not opposed to bidding, but we have problems with the way the police consider bidding." The police now consider it a uniform computer service with which a casual text message is sent. "[19659002]" Aside from the fact that the combination of ICT and police projects does not always work properly, it seems that the police are relying mainly on this call for tenders and no longer look at the detection of the problem. missing child, "says Hoen.

" We If you realize that you have to deal with it very carefully, the cooperation with little Hannah was found in Germany earlier this year, but the police do not want talk about international police cooperation. "

" Amber Alert is not an average, "says Hoen." So, how do you do that with international cooperation and how do you spend the voluntary deployment of 3 million Dutch? "

Citizens 'Initiative

Amber Alert is the largest citizens' initiative in the Netherlands Since its founding in late 2008, Amber Alert has been used more than a thousand times to detect a missing child – three million Dutch citizens receive a direct report Via the thousands of organizations affiliated with Amber Alert, the report is also visible on the news sites and on Facebook.There are also reports on billboards along the roads.

According to Amber Alert, the child is found in 94% of the calls.