Monday, June 11, 2007

Sheriff joins missing persons alert program

The Times Leader Online - Princeton, Kentucky: "Caldwell County Sheriff Stan Hudson has formalized an agreement with the A Child Is Missing alert program, putting a high-tech method in place to search locally for missing persons — children, the elderly (often with Alzheimer’s), college students and the mentally or physically challenged.

Upon receipt of a missing person call, local sheriff’s deputies will now make their first phone call to a toll-free number that rings in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

The call, answered by an A Child Is Missing technician, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, initiates a rapid process of information gathering and sophisticated mapping systems, expediting within minutes thousands of phone calls featuring a customized recorded message detailing the missing person’s description and last known whereabouts."

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