EMCOR vans help find missing teen Wayne
23rd May 2008
As a year passes since 16-year-old Wayne Yates went missing from his home in Canning Town, London, police launch a fresh appeal to find him.
Wayne is 5 ft 11" tall, of a slim build with red hair and hazel eyes. He failed to return home after he left school on 13 March last year. He is the eighth child to be featured in a national poster campaign run by the NPIA's Missing Persons Bureau, EMCOR and children's charity PACT. Since the launch in the UK in October 2006, three of the children who have appeared on the posters so far have been located.
Members of the public are urged to look out for the posters displayed on EMCOR's fleet of vans across the country as part of the Taking KidSafety to the Street™ programme and visit the Missing Kids website www.missingkids.co.uk.
A Metropolitan Police spokesperson, said:
"We believe Wayne could be in the local area or possibly in Essex and we are keen to find out if he is safe and well. Wayne is not in any trouble and will be offered further support to help him now and in the future. We urge anyone with information about Wayne's whereabouts to come forward."
EMCOR's Taking KidSafety to the Street™campaign was launched in the UK following the success of EMCOR Group, Inc.'s work with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the U.S., which has helped to recover 100 children so far. The programme is designed to help the police find up to 100,000 children who go missing in the UK each year - approximately one child every five minutes.
Any relevant information about Wayne, or any other missing child, can be reported to the police on the free-phone number 0808 100 8777.
Notes to editors
About EMCOR Group (UK) plc
Headquartered in London, EMCOR Group (UK) plc (EMCOR) is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE:EME) a Fortune 500® company with over $5.9 billion in annual revenues and a leader in mechanical and electrical construction, energy infrastructure and facilities services. An independent specialist contractor, established over a century ago, EMCOR gives life to new structures and sustains life in existing ones by its planning, designing, installing, operating and maintaining the sophisticated and dynamic systems that create facility environments - such as electrical, mechanical, lighting, air conditioning, heating, ventilation, telecommunications, security, power generation systems and public health - in virtually every sector of the economy and for a diverse range of businesses throughout the UK.
EMCOR Group's 'Build Power Service Protect' slogan reflects its rare combination of end-to-end capabilities with local execution, combining the strength of an industry leader with the knowledge and care of over 29,000 skilled employees at 76 local operating companies in 170 locations.
MissingKids.co.uk
The UK Missing Kids website is a unique tool designed to help the police recover missing and abducted children. It is a partnership between the police, charities, and the private sector.
The Missing Kids website was originally created in the USA by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). It was introduced to England, Wales and Northern Ireland in June 2000, and to Scotland in June 2004. The site is managed by the NPIA MPB and by a number of police forces.
The UK Missing Kids website is the only site of this kind which is approved by the Home Office, ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) and ACPO(S) (Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland). Only the police can enter information on the UK site. The Missing Kids website has been introduced to 16 countries and more are joining every year. The latest country to join was the Republic of Ireland.
EMCOR Taking KidSafety to the Street
The 'Taking KidSafety to the Street™' initiative began in the United States by EMCOR Group, Inc., the parent company of EMCOR Group (UK). It launched the initiative in September 2005 to help raise awareness of missing children and to assist in helping to find them. To date, 100 children have been found since the US programme's inception.
In the UK, EMCOR uses its fleet of more than 450 vehicles in service across the country as moving billboards to display posters of missing children. The posters are designed in conjunction with the NPIA MPB for maximum visibility and includes photos of the missing children, the NPIA MPB website address www.missingkids.co.uk and its hotline number 0808 100 8777 which can be called to report any information about the missing child.
PACT (Parents and Abducted Children Together)
PACT is an international, non-profit organisation, registered in the USA and the UK. It was founded in 2000 by Lady Meyer, wife of the then British Ambassador to the United States. Its patrons are Cherie Blair, wife of the British Prime Minister, and Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States.
PACT's initial mission was to fight parental child abduction across frontiers by raising awareness of a growing, but little-known, problem and by advocating solutions.
National Policing Improvement Agency's Missing Persons Bureau (NPIA MPB)
The NPIA MPB a specialist police unit which acts as a centre for the exchange of information connected with the search for missing persons both nationally and internationally. It assists and co-ordinates other relevant agencies and organisations to improve the overall effectiveness of the broad response to missing persons.
The NPIA MPB is based at Bramshill in Hampshire and serves UK Forces and overseas agencies. It acts as the central clearing house for information on missing persons and focuses on cross-matching missing persons with unidentified bodies/persons, maintaining a missing persons database and managing the UK website www.missingkids.co.uk.
The NPIA MPB offers advice in relation to information available from government and non-government agencies, which may be of assistance in missing person or unidentified body/persons enquiries. It is not responsible for conducting any missing persons enquiries.
The NPIA MPB has contacts with most government departments and also the primary non-governmental organisations and charities that deal with missing persons.
The NPIA MPB has a quality control and liaison function in respect of all cases placed on the website. It is also the central point of contact for all cases featured on posters.
For further information contact:
Paul Barnard
t: 0113 237 0777