antikidnapping

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ kidnapping

Adjective

antikidnapping (not comparable)

(law enforcement) Preventing or countering kidnapping.
- 2008 May 10, James C. Mckinley Jr., “Caught in a Swirl of Drug Violence, Mexico Vows to Fight Back”, in New York Times‎:
  In the capital on Friday, a city police commander, Esteban Robles Espinosa, 52, who once headed the department’s antikidnapping division, was shot and killed as he left his house at 7:30 a.m.

Translations

preventing or countering kidnapping

Portuguese: antissequestro
Spanish: antisecuestros

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