amberBefore the release, a test of the "Find me" system will be done, Igor Jurić tells "Vreme". REM adopted a regulation according to which the media will be obliged to publish information about the disappearance of a child without delay
The Serbian version of the "Amber alert" system, called "Find me!", was supposed to start working on November 1, and it will be preceded by a trial of the system, Igor Jurić, from the Center for Missing and Abused Children, told "Vreme" launched an initiative to introduce a special public notification system in cases of missing children.
The Regulatory Body for Electronic Media (REM) adopted a rulebook according to which the media will be obliged to publish information about the disappearance of a child without delay after receiving a notification from the ministry responsible for information affairs.
The media will be obliged to publish the notice without delay and to broadcast it regularly in the next 48 hours. Notifications must be broadcast every 30 minutes for the first eight hours, and every 50 minutes thereafter.
After the expiry of the period of 48 hours from the first publication, the obligation to publish further notices ceases.
When a missing minor child is found, the media must stop broadcasting and inform the public that the child has been found.
Igor Jurić also explains what the notification system will look like in case of a missing child.
"We talked about it a lot. The MUP would waste a lot of time if it were to inform all the actors in the system by itself, so we came up with this solution. The MUP will have a contact point in the Ministry of Information that will inform the media. Also, there will be a special contact point related to the mobile operator. In the second phase, information for electronic billboards will be sent in the same way. Therefore, all those contact points will have the task of informing their agents, who will then inform the public," says Juruć.
The Ministry of Information and Telecommunications and the Office for Information Technologies and Electronic Administration of the Government of the Republic of Serbia are working on the creation of the platform for urgent public information "I'll Find Me".
As explained earlier, citizens will be informed about the disappearance of a minor via SMS, interruption of television and radio broadcasts, as well as signs on the highway, airport, bus and railway stations.
Jurić says that the system will surely start working by November 1.
"Before the official start of the system, there will be a media campaign, as well as a test. We haven't decided yet whether it will be in one, let's call it, secure environment or if all citizens will get the message. In any case, that first information will not be that a child is missing, but information that the system has been put into operation," explains Jurić.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs also prepared the Instruction on the actions of police officers in the case of reporting the disappearance of a minor and the method of emergency notification to the public, which defines clear and precise steps for activating and functioning the system.
The Working Group for the introduction of the "Find me!" system, which was formed in February of this year by the Minister of Internal Affairs Bratislav Gašić, includes representatives of several ministries, the Center for Missing and Abused Children and the association "Astra".
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