The father of missing Madeleine McCann will arrive in the US on Monday to learn about specialist agencies which work to prevent child abductions.


Gerry McCann will meet US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on his four-day visit.
Mr McCann said he wanted to understand the work being carried out to reduce child abductions across the world.

Madeleine, of Rothley, Leicestershire, disappeared from an apartment in Praia da Luz, in the Algarve, on 3 May.
Mr McCann is to meet experts at both the National and International Centres for Missing and Exploited Children.

They were established in 1984 and 1998 respectively after six-year-old Adam Walsh was kidnapped and murdered after being snatched from a department store in Florida in 1981.

The case led to new legislation passed last year - the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act.

'Safer world'
It strengthened the US's nationwide sex offender registration system and introduced harsher penalties for child sex offenders.
Mr McCann said: "I hope to discuss the implementation of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act.

"After visiting the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre in London, I wanted to understand better the work that is being carried out across the world to reduce child abductions.
"I am going to the USA to meet experts at both the National and International Centres for Missing and Exploited Children.

"We want to work closely with the police and child welfare agencies in maintaining the profile of Madeleine's and other children's disappearance."
He added: "We hope our efforts will help make the world a little bit safer for all children. Kate and I believe there is a strong, public feeling that crimes against children, wherever they may occur, are totally unacceptable."
Mr McCann's wife Kate will remain in Portugal with the couple's two-year-old twins, Sean and Amelie.