Wehrenberg
Theatres and Masons Partner on Behalf of Missouri Parents
Neighborhood
Theatres Offer Tool to Aid Police in Event of Abduction
St. Louis, MO -
Wehrenberg Theatres and the Missouri Masonic Family are teaming
up with events designed to aid police if the unimaginable were to
become reality for parents. Several theatres will host
“MOCHIP,” or Missouri Child Identification and
Protection Program. The events allow parents to collect updated
information of their children in formats most useful to the
police.
Parents can
bring their children to any scheduled MOCHIP event free of
charge. The children will be photographed and fingerprinted on
the spot. Special equipment will record this information, along
with other vital identifiers (such as height, weight, birthmarks,
etc.), to a small computer disc. The disc can, if needed, be
uploaded almost immediately by police to Amber Alert, the
national child search system.
In addition, the
child's dental bite impression will be taken and given to
parents. Dental bites offer another way to identify a child,
along with enough saliva to provide police canines a scent to
help search for missing children. Laminated ID cards of the child
are also provided in the MOCHIP package. These packages offer
authorities a great amount of useful information for the
time-sensitive search and recovery plans.
The program is
not only offered free of charge, but all information gathered by
the MOCHIP program is erased at the end of the day to insure
confidentiality. The pertinent information winds up in the
parents' hands only. Only a signed permission slip is kept by the
Masons.
Wehrenberg has
provided locations for the event, and helped fund it as well. The
company donated over $25,000 of high-tech equipment to make the
program possible. St. Louis, MO - Wehrenberg Theatres and the
Missouri Masonic Family are teaming up with events designed to
aid police if the unimaginable were to become reality for
parents.
A complete
schedule of hosting theatres is:
June 2, 2012 - Mid Rivers 14 Cine – Noon to 5 PM
June 9, 2012 – Ronnies 20 Cine – Noon to 5 PM
June 9, 2012 – Osage Village 5 Cine – Noon to 5 PM
August 25, 2012– Cape West 14 Cine – Noon to 5 PM
More dates will
be added in the future. Those dates will, of course, be made
public as soon as possible.
