AMBER Alert: Australian Facebook users to be notified about missing children

Australians will begin to see notices on Facebook about missing children after police and the social network announced the rollout of the AMBER Alert system.

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Facebook and the nation's police forces will begin issuing alerts about abducted children to Australian users.

Federal police on Thursday say the AMBER Alert system will be used to help find and return missing children.

The system, which places notices about abducted children in prominent parts of users' feeds, rolled out to US users in early 2015.