Charlie Hedges

Charlie Hedges is one of the UK's foremost experts on missing persons, particularly children and those who are abducted and trafficked. During a career spanning 36-years, he first worked in the police force before specialising in missing persons in 1997. Charlie has amassed a wealth of experience with the UK's leading public bodies for missing persons, joining the UK Missing Persons Bureau in 2008, and then the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre in 2012. Charlie has been involved in some of the most high-profile cases of recent years and was awarded an MBE for his tireless efforts in the protection of endangered missing children by the Queen in 2015.