A SCHEME to quickly find a child who has gone missing or has been abducted has been relaunched in Hampshire.

The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) has launched the Child Rescue Alert (CRA).

Hampshire Constabulary signed up to CRA back in 2004, the third force in the country to introduce the scheme.

Now the scheme is being rolled out nationally.

Alerts will be activated to local media by a UK police force when certain criteria have been met, sometimes within hours of a reported disappearance.