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🔍✨ The ICCAP team leaders share their insights on how our International Cold Case Analysis Project (ICCAP) bridges theory and practice to solve cold cases and seek justice for forgotten victims. Their reflections highlight the power of collaboration 🤝 and innovation 💡 in addressing unsolved mysteries. Dive into their perspective in this compelling article: https://lnkd.in/dTsT2bAQ

The University of Cologne and AMBER Alert Europe are joining forces to protect missing children. 🎓🤝 This partnership combines research and real-world solutions to make a real impact. Together, we’re working to ensure no child is forgotten. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eYw9ANcN

In a compelling episode of the German "Licht ins Dunkel" podcast, Karsten Bettels, AMBER Alert Europe Advisory Board member and ICCAP Course Leader, shares his extensive expertise on missing persons cases and cold cases. Bettels recounts the origins of the AMBER Alert system, inspired by the tragic abduction of Amber Hagerman, and how this initiative has since evolved to save children worldwide. He also discusses our International Cold Case Analysis Project (ICCAP), a groundbreaking collaboration between law enforcement and universities across the globe, which aims to breathe new life into unsolved cases. Bettels highlights the critical role of AMBER Alert Europe in advancing child safety through prevention, training, international cooperation, and innovative tools like the AMBER Alert system. 🎧 Tune in now to learn how experts, technology, and public engagement are transforming the search for missing persons and making Europe safer for its children.

In a recent article from a Dutch newspaper, our International Cold Case Analysis Project (ICCAP) is highlighted as a pioneer in innovative investigation methods. Together with police officers from The Hague and talented citizens with digital expertise, ICCAP is reopening an eight-year-old German cold case, in which an unidentified man was found dead in a metal box, during a Hackathon organised by the Dutch Police and the Public Prosecutor’s Office. This collaboration brings fresh insights that could lead to breakthroughs in stalled investigations 🕵️♂️

🎉 Exciting news! AMBER Alert Europe’s International Cold Case Analysis Project (ICCAP) has received an award at the Dutch Police Hackathon 🏆 Not only does ICCAP help solve cold cases and bring new hope to families, but it also gives students the opportunity to gain valuable practical experience.

Stichting AMBER Alert Europe and International Cold Case Analysis Project (ICCAP) are thrilled to be part in 2024 Dutch Police‘s Hackathon, Eenheid Den Haag with ICCAP students from Dutch Maastricht University, German Hochschule Mittweida and several cold cases. Thank you, Bryan S. for giving us this great opportunity.

We're thrilled to announce that Association AVANE, a French non-profit supporting families affected by cold cases, has partnered with AMBER Alert Europe. As part of this partnership, Association AVANE will participate in the International Cold Case Analysis Project (ICCAP), working with experts and students worldwide to breathe new life into unsolved investigations.

[#ColdCase 🔎 📽 ] En Allemagne, d'anciens enquêteurs à la retraite ont décidé de reprendre certains dossiers non élucidés pour tenter d'apporter des réponses aux familles. 👉 Parmi eux, Karsten Bettels, fondateur de l'International Cold Case Analysis Project, un programme porté par AMBER Alert Europe, qui a décidé de relancer une affaire de meurtre vieille de 33 ans avec l'aide d'une équipe d'experts internationaux. 📽 Une histoire passionnante à découvrir dans ce documentaire ARTE (23/08/2024) : https://lnkd.in/eAnNVb-Z

There are always different ways to advance a goal. The following documentary by ARTE RE shows two different approaches to cold case analysis, including the International Cold Case Analysis Project (ICCAP) for support by students from police training centres and universities from Australia to Europe and America in a case with an international connection through the killing of a Scottish family father in Lower Saxony / Germany in 1983. As ARTE is a Franco-German broadcaster, the report is also available to stream bilingually in German and French. The report also shows that relatives across three generations, from parents to siblings to the children of a victim are not in state to close the books. This points impressively to the fact, that it is a task for society as a whole and for criminal policy to support police in unsolved homicides and missing persons cases. Many thanks to all the participating universities, police training centers, especially AMBER Alert Europe , Locate International, Polizeiakademie Niedersachsen, BTU Cottbus and Hochschule Mittweida and the responsible investigating authorities in Celle. https://lnkd.in/eT3KZY8h