Indenti-Kid Program

 

 

‘IDENTIKID’ IS AN AUSTRALIA WIDE, LIONS COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT.

 

IT IS A PROJECT INSTIGATED BY A POLICE OFICER AND TAKEN UP BY LIONS CLUBS IN THE INTERESTS OF CHILD SAFETY. FEW PEOPLE REALISE THAT SOME TEN THOUSAND CHILDREN ARE REPORTED MISSING IN AUSTRALIA EVERY YEAR. MOST ARE LOCATED AND RETURNED HOME SAFELY.

 

THE LIONS IDENTIKID PROGRAMME HELPS TO SPEED UP THE REPORTING PROCESS THEREBY, HOPEFULLY SHORTENING THE SEARCH AND LOCATION TIME. THE PROGRAMME SIMPLY PROVIDES PARENTS WITH AN ‘UP TO DATE’ LAMINATED PHOTOGRAPH AND DESCRIPTION OF THEIR CHILD, TO HAND QUICKLY TO POLICE, THE MEDIA, OR OTHER AUTHORITIES SHOULD THEIR CHILD GO MISSING. (Similar to a driving license)

 

THE ‘IDENTIFICATION PHOTOGRAPH’ IS HELD BY THE PARENTS OR GUARDIAN, AND IS ONLY USED IN THE EVENT OF THE CHILD GOING MISSING. THE LIONS CLUB KEEPS NO PERSONAL DETAILS.

 

THE IDENTIKID PROGRAMME HAS BEEN OPERATING THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA FOR OVER 16 YEARS AND IS SUPPORTED AND RECOMMENDED BY POLICE AUTHORITIES IN SPEEDING UP THE PROCESS OF CIRCULATING ACCURATE AND UP TO DATE PHOTOGRAPHS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF MISSING CHILDREN, THEREBY ASSISTING IN THE SWIFT LOCATION OF CHILDREN WHOSE LIVES MAY BE IN DANGER.

 

IN 1989-90 A SIMILAR PROGRAMME DEVELOPED FROM THE AUSTRALIAN LIONS IDENTIKID PROJECT WAS TAKEN UP BY THE UNITED STATES NAVY OUT OF CONCERN FOR THE SAFETY OF WIVES AND CHILDREN LEFT AT HOME.

 

MANY SCHOOLS HAVE TAKEN UP THE PROJECT THROUGH ‘PARENTS AND CITIZENS’ OR ‘PARENTS AND FRIENDS’ ASSOCIATIONS AND OUR CLUB IS OFTEN CALLED BACK TO ‘UP DATE’ INFORMATION AFTER TWO YEARS OR WHEN THE CHILD’S DESCRIPTION CHANGES SUBSTANTIALLY.

 

THE PROGRAMME CAN ALSO PROVIDE LAMINATED IDENTIFICATION CARDS FOR ‘CLUBS’; ‘COMMUNITY GROUPS’; BUSINESSES etc BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT. IT IS CONSIDERED A WISE MOVE TO HAVE SIMILAR ‘UP TO DATE’ INFORMATION AVAILABLE OF ADULT FAMILY MEMBERS ON HAND SHOULD SOMETHING GO WRONG.

 

LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL HOPES THAT YOU WILL NEVER HAVE A NEED TO USE YOUR ‘IDENTIKID CARD’ BUT IF YOUR CHILD OR A LOVED-ONE GOES MISSING, YOU WILL BE GLAD YOU TOOK THE TIME.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS PLEASE CONTACT
Lion Anna CROUTHER(Chairperson) Phone H. (07) 49543004, Mobile 0419 773364
Lion Warren HANSEN (Secretary) Phone H. (07) 49593212, Mobile 0417 628588.