Craig Hill Honored for Combatting Crimes Against Children

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, presented the Crystal Kipper & Ali Kemp Memorial Award today to Craig Hill, a professional consultant with a long history of combatting crimes against children.

Hill is a consultant who presents law enforcement training and public lectures in conjunction with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, where he formerly served as associate director of law enforcement training and outreach for more than five years.

“Craig Hill has spent his career either directly working in law enforcement, or working to support law enforcement,” Dickinson said. “Some people retire to play golf, or go fishing. When Craig retired as Deputy Police Chief in the Leawood Police Department, he didn’t skip a beat. Craig continued to pursue his passion for protecting children and for equipping and training law enforcement officers and other professionals who are in the trenches combatting these heinous crimes.”

After 33 years in the Leawood, Kan., Police Department, the last five as Deputy Police Chief, Hill went to work for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).

“That was a natural progression for him,” Dickinson said, noting that during his tenure with the Leawood Police Department he was a co-founder of The Lost Child Network. The Lost Child Network, where Hill served as president for 14 years, was one of the nation’s first non-profit child resources centers when it was founded in 1984.

The Lost Child Network merged with NCMEC in 1998 to become the Kansas City branch of that national organization and Hill joined NCMEC’s board of directors. In 2005, Hill retired from the police force and became the associate director of law enforcement training and outreach for NCMEC.

The Crystal Kipper & Ali Kemp Memorial Award is presented by the U.S. Attorney’s Office each year during the local observance of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week to recognize the outstanding work of an individual or organization in protecting children from crimes and abuse.

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