2012 Missing Children’s Poster Contest

To signify the importance of National Amber Alert Day, the Patrol is again participating in the National Missing Children’s Day Poster Contest. The 2012 contest is open to all Missouri fifth grade students. Students will create 11 x 14 posters that shall reflect the 2012 contest theme, “Bring Our Missing Children Home.”

Each participating Missouri school will choose a first place winner and submit that winner to the Highway Patrol’s Missing Persons Unit no later than March 1, 2012. A completed application, found on the Patrol’s website, must accompany the poster. Posters shall be mailed to: MSHP Missing Persons Unit, Attn: Heather Elder, Q/DDCC, P.O. Box 568, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0568. One Missouri poster will be given an overall first place award, and will then be automatically entered in the national competition.

“One child returned safely home makes all the difference.” That is Statewide Amber Alert Coordinator Captain Kim E. Hull’s response when asked why the Amber Alert program is so important to the safety of Missouri’s children. Capt. Hull also serves as the division director for the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Information and Communications Technology Division.

For more information regarding Missouri’s Amber Alert System or the National Missing Children’s Day Poster Contest, please visit the Patrol’s website at www.mshp.dps.mo.gov or call the Missing Persons Unit at (573) 526-6178. Members of the public may also visit www.amberalert.gov to sign up to receive Amber Alerts via email or text message.