Cabinet nod for NUR alert
KUALA LUMPUR: The cabinet yesterday approved an early child abduction alert system which will allow the authorities and media to be notified within hours of a child being reported missing.
NUR (National Urgent Response) Alert will focus on missing children under the age of 12.
Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said the system was the best solution to the issue of safety of children.
She said the system was created to spread information about missing children as widely as possible. "This will help speed up the process of bringing the missing child home unharmed."
Shahrizat said it would see the authorities working more effectively with private and non-governmental agencies on missing children.
"It aims to bring the authorities and community together to recover and rescue missing children within the shortest time possible."
The implementation of the NUR Alert system will be overseen by a task force headed by the police with a representative from her ministry as deputy.
Under the system, efforts will be made to display information and pictures of missing children on television.
This includes the use of posters, websites, short messaging service (SMS) and electronic bulletin boards within 24 hours of a police report being filed on a missing child.
The system, previously known as Nurin (Nationwide Urgent Response Information Network) Alert, was proposed following the abduction and murder of Nurin Jazlin Jazimin, 8, in 2007.
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