The Leader\u002DPost looks at recent high profile cases involving missing children to shed light on why some get Amber Alerts while others don\u0027t.
That person needs to be at imminent risk of serious bodily injury or death, and we didn’t have that in this case,” he is quoted as having said.
Further, police must confirm there has been an abduction — some “sort of criminal element,” Jennings said. The SPS has only ever issued one Amber Alert, which was in August of 2020 as police searched for a missing four-year-old girl. She was found safe after the alert was issued. Further, the RPS requires that: there is enough descriptive information about the abducted person, the abductor and the suspect’s vehicle to ensure the public can identify these elements; and the alert can be issued in a time frame where it’s reasonable to expect the abducted person can be returned and the abductor apprehended.
Even with news releases surrounding missing children, Popowich said some people can become “jaded” and begin to ignore the information. When the criteria is met for an Amber Alert, and the documentation is complete, the alert itself is able to go out fairly promptly, according to Popowich, who noted the RCMP handle the technical side of pushing the information to mobile devices.
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