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A new alert system that police recently used to find two missing girls received endorsement from the country’s police chiefs on Thursday.
The system, known as the Child Search Network, allows police to put out information on a missing child via a website and smartphone app. Members of the public can then offer tips by clicking on the name or picture of the child.
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OTTAWA, ON / ACCESSWIRE / February 25, 2021 / The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) has officially endorsed the Missing Children Society of Canada s (MCSC) new
Child Search Network, a national system designed to meet the gap of response for high-risk missing children cases that do not meet the strict criteria for the AMBER Alert, thereby significantly enhancing Canada s national strategy for missing persons.
Over 40,000 children go missing, run away or are abducted in Canada each year, but fewer than one per cent of those cases are broadcast to the public through AMBER Alerts.
Missing persons investigations can be complex, resource intensive and very costly. The CACP is grateful to the Missing Children Society of Canada and to Microsoft and Esri Canada for making this valuable new technology available to police services across Canada, free of charge.
On February 16, Canada s governing Liberal Party finally moved to enact long-promised reforms to criminal justice by introducing a sweeping new bill that would make arrests for drug possession only one option for police, end all mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses, end some other mandatory minimums, and open the way for conditional (probationary) sentences for a variety of offenses. But is it enough?
Canadian parliament building, Ottawa (Creative Commons)The government s move comes as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces mounting pressure for reform on two fronts. First, Canada is facing an unprecedented drug overdose crisis, with the province of British Columbia especially hard-hit. Last year, the provincial Coroners Service reported, BC saw a whopping 1,716 drug overdose deaths, up a startling 74 percent over 2019. The province has always been on the cutting edge of drug reform in Canada, and spurred by the crisis, BC formally asked the federal government in early Februar