A new digital technology platform will provide police services across Canada with a way to share information regarding missing children more quickly then ever before.

It’s called the Child Search Network, and Chief Bryan Larkin, the President of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) says there is finally one common platform across the nation. He police services will be able to upload urgent and high risk missing child cases that don’t reach the AMBER alert threshold , but require emergency community assistance and police support.

Amber alerts, Larkin explains, are issued when children are abducted and believed to be in immediate danger. Now the Child Search Network will include an app from the Missing Children’s Society of Canada called MCSC Rescu.

The CACP are urging all police services in Canada to adopt the Child Search Network and inviting Canadians to help out by downloading MCSC rescu.

The app will provide alerts and allow users to share information they may have regarding a missing child or youth.
The network was designed in partnership by technology from Microsoft Canada and Esri Canada

MCSC CEO, Amanda Pick, says she wants people to imagine being able to take a poster of a missing child and then sharing it with millions of people in minutes. “Thanks to technology, innovation and digital reach, not only is it possible, it’s got a name, the Child Search Network. Canada’s Child Search Network starts a journey where in Canada, no missing child will go unseen.”

Find out more about the app here.