Sunday, October 08, 2006
Missing Child Recovery System Successfully Operated
Columbus, Ohio: Last week, the city used a system to rapidly call over 3,000 residents and businesses to alert citizens to a kidnapping in an area in which a child and his abductor were last seen.
Police had begun looking for a man and child after contact from Virginia State Police Department indicated a father was wanted for parental kidnapping of his 2-year old son was in the area.
From the field, Frankfort's Emergency Management Director Deron Rambo contacted TFCCs 24/7 Help Desk to launch a call-out program, to contact area residents within a specific geographic radius to ask for their help in locating the missing boy. Rambo provided a description of the man and the child to UCS Client Manager Elizabeth Drake, along with the location where the duo had last been spotted.
Focusing in on a 2-mile radius using the UCS GIS-Mapping function, the program automatically generated a list of all the phone numbers. A custom message was created directing callers to 9-1-1; the UCS converted the message to computerized speech using the Text-to-Speech function and within minutes, Drake activated the program which called 3,488 phone numbers and local schools, which closed their doors.
Within 20 minutes, before an Amber Alert could be activated or other action taken, simultaneous calls were made to 9-1-1 which led police to apprehend the kidnapper and recover the child. The pair, on foot, had moved into an area the police had not yet searched.
"Quick action from the field on the part of the Frankfort EMA, and Elizabeth Drake's calm and efficient performance in executing the call-out program, are to be commended. We are proud our system was an instrumental factor in safely recovering the missing child," said James Lehr Kennedy, president and CEO of Twenty First Century Communications.
Frankfort Emergency Management Agency purchased the Universal Communications System earlier this year through a grant from the Kentucky Department of Homeland Security.
(EWORLDWIRE)
Police had begun looking for a man and child after contact from Virginia State Police Department indicated a father was wanted for parental kidnapping of his 2-year old son was in the area.
From the field, Frankfort's Emergency Management Director Deron Rambo contacted TFCCs 24/7 Help Desk to launch a call-out program, to contact area residents within a specific geographic radius to ask for their help in locating the missing boy. Rambo provided a description of the man and the child to UCS Client Manager Elizabeth Drake, along with the location where the duo had last been spotted.
Focusing in on a 2-mile radius using the UCS GIS-Mapping function, the program automatically generated a list of all the phone numbers. A custom message was created directing callers to 9-1-1; the UCS converted the message to computerized speech using the Text-to-Speech function and within minutes, Drake activated the program which called 3,488 phone numbers and local schools, which closed their doors.
Within 20 minutes, before an Amber Alert could be activated or other action taken, simultaneous calls were made to 9-1-1 which led police to apprehend the kidnapper and recover the child. The pair, on foot, had moved into an area the police had not yet searched.
"Quick action from the field on the part of the Frankfort EMA, and Elizabeth Drake's calm and efficient performance in executing the call-out program, are to be commended. We are proud our system was an instrumental factor in safely recovering the missing child," said James Lehr Kennedy, president and CEO of Twenty First Century Communications.
Frankfort Emergency Management Agency purchased the Universal Communications System earlier this year through a grant from the Kentucky Department of Homeland Security.
(EWORLDWIRE)
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