CODE ADAM For Finding Missing Children

Brandon, thanks. I made this its own discussion. The CODE ADAM website talks about sending a kit.

Is this the video from the ki?

Can you elaborate on how effective it is? Is it primarily procedures to use or?

At the last museum I worked at, we implemented CODE ADAM by studying the plan provided in the kit and adopting it for our needs. The kit came with stickers we placed at our entries. The CODE ADAM program originated from Walmart so Sam's Club gave me money to buy extra 2-way radios to use when we activated a CODE ADAM.

As I recall that is the video we used to train staff and volunteers. For us, it was all about making a timely pre-scripted PA announcement campus-wide with no details of the missing kid. Non-security staff would then pay attention to their radios and switch to the security radio frequency and we would make follow-up 2-way radio announcements with details of the missing kid. Many staff and volunteers had near-by assigned exits they would stand at when they heard the PA announcement.

Security staff did a sweep of our campus following assigned search zones that they already followed in case of a fire alarm.

Our SOC also scanned camera video for the missing kid from their last known location. That gave us a great starting point.  

Of the 200+ CODE ADAMS we had per year, we called the police a handful of times and every kid was found. Once the kid was found, we cancelled the CODE ADAM using the PA system.

The only adjustment we made to our original variation of our CODE ADAM was we started sending a security officer to the family's parked car as some kids will go back to the car.