ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION

The Association for the Recovery of Children (ARC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization comprised of former and active Intelligence, Military, and Law Enforcement personnel, dedicated to the recovery of missing and exploited children, foreign and domestic.

The management team of the association comes from: the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the United States Secret Service, Scotland Yard, supervisory law enforcement, Fortune 100 corporate security, government protective services, and military Special Forces.

With offices in Los Angeles and a global network of experienced affiliates, ARC is well placed to be your trusted strategic partner. To date, we have a 100% success rate with a multitude of recoveries, which translates to the fact that no harm ever came to a child reunited with their custodial parents.

OUR MISSION STATEMENT

ARC was formed in 1991 and is controlled by founder Bazzel Baz. It is an under-the-radar operation contracted through various sources for intelligence and information on missing and exploited children. This under-the-radar status allows the association to hand pick its cases, rather than be tasked with the overwhelming demands of those seeking help, maintain confidential sources and methods, and successfully accomplish its missions. ARC's clandestine methodology is proven to be different and more effective than current local, state, federal, and international investigative procedures.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Through various special relationships within the law enforcement and intelligence communities, ARC has the capability to travel to domestic and foreign regions on behalf of custodial parents requesting assistance. Generally that assistance is provided after the custodial parents have exhausted resources through local, state, federal, and international law enforcement intervention. ARC provides this assistance at no cost to the parents.

As a member of the Amber Alert Portal Consortium and the International Justice and Public Safety Sharing Network, ARC is closer to its ultimate goal of ensuring so efficient and seamless a network that no one will ever consider abducting a child again.

When asked by citizens why we do what we do, our reply is simple. "If we do not...who will?" Our primary focus is on one thing and one thing only, the recovery of abducted children. We do not come home without the child.

Think about it...we were all children once. If you were abducted or lost, wouldn't you want the best prospect of knowing that you would soon be reunited with your family?

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. We hold ourselves to the highest moral consciousness, knowing that children are the future. If we do not protect them, then we do nothing more than sow the seeds of destruction within our own nation, as well as others. In a world of changing and declining moral values, one trait distinguishes us from the other more clearly than race, gender, creed or color...honor. Today, more than at any other time in history, the destiny of the world rests on the high hopes we garner from the honorable men and women among us. Not completely definable and often intangible, honor feeds the spirit and soul of those who take it as their way of life. Honor must be freely embraced and treasured, not for the material benefits which it might bring, but for the knowledge that one has obeyed the moral law.

ARC is more than an organization. It is a fortress of duty, a sentinel of responsibility, a bastion of antiquity, a towering bulwark of rigid discipline, instilling within us high ideals, honor, uprightness, loyalty, patriotism, obedience, initiative, leadership, professional knowledge and pride in achievement...putting the welfare of our own lives, second to that of the child. -The Guidon.

The fact that we never fail our comrades, always keep ourselves mentally alert, physically tough and morally straight as well as shoulder more than our share of the task whatever it may be, is a credit to the good men and women of ARC and a major component for the safe recovery of an abducted child. We always defend those whom God has placed in our charge.

We seek virtue in all things. It is by virtue alone that we are made noble. We seek great stature of character by holding to virtues and duties, realizing that though the ideals may not be reached, the quality of striving towards them ennobles the spirit. Nobility has the tendency to influence others, offering a compelling example of what can be done in the service of rightness.

OPERATIONAL COSTS ANALYSIS

The costs of each operation are as unique as the demands of that particular operation. On average, ARC operations in the field do not exceed ten days. The ability to recover a child at this rate is predicated on the success of the operational analysis prior to entering the field. The time and energy required by this process, while demanding a smaller portion of the funding, is a critical step in the success of the operation. Compared to an average 3-year recovery by customary investigative authorities, ARC’s performance speaks for itself.

Starting with the administration, logistical and security preparation, the performance of in-country activities that lead to the location and successful recovery of a child can vary in cost. Movements of an abductor from one location to the next can offset the equation. Logistical funding requirements allow ARC to rework the equation with preemptive measures that facilitate our ability to expedite the arrival of necessary assets to the exact location of the child before he/she is moved to another secured site. 

The performance of international activities that lead to the location and safe recovery of a child can also vary in cost. Although our foreign counterparts are eager to assist in the operation, from time-to-time some foreign entities see this as an opportunity for profit, an unfortunate demand that can increase the cost for a recovery operation.