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Presenters
Robert Hoever
Associate Director of Training and Outreach
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
699 Prince Street
Alexandria , VA 22314
571-221-5176
Robert Hoever is currently employed by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) as an Associate Director of Training and Outreach. He is responsible for NCMEC’s role in the AMBER Alert Program, and serves as a liaison to law enforcement and other AMBER partners; liaison to the 53 Missing-Child Clearinghouses; and liaison to Tribal Law Enforcement.
He recently retired from the New Jersey State Police after 26 years. He retired as a Lieutenant and the Assistant Bureau Chief of the Child Protection and Cyber-Crimes Bureau. As such, he supervised the operations of the Missing Persons Unit, AMBER Alert Program; High Technology Crime Unit including the ICAC Regional Task Force, Violent Crime Analysis Unit, Cyber-Crimes Unit, and the RCFL Unit (Regional Computer Forensic Lab). He was also a past Clearinghouse Manager, as well as the Unit Supervisor of the Missing Persons Unit and the High Technology Crime Unit. He was responsible for the development of New Jersey’s AMBER program, and was the first AMBER Coordinator for New Jersey. He first started investigating child exploitation in 1985, while assigned to the Missing Persons Unit. He was responsible for the creation of the Child Exploitation Squad, within the Missing Person Unit in 1986.
As a result of these assignments, he has been involved in numerous investigations pertaining to missing, abducted (family and non-family), and exploited children, as well as unidentified body investigations. He worked in an undercover capacity for 11 years infiltrating child sex rings throughout New Jersey, leading to hundreds of arrests. He has received numerous awards and commendations for his work from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, FBI, U.S. Customs, and the U.S Postal Inspection Service. He has been widely recognized as an expert with child molester investigations, and has testified in both federal and state courts and has lectured extensively throughout the country on that topic.