A Child is Missing works in Garland County

The Garland County Sheriff’s Office became a member of an awesome program approximately 6 years ago. This program is called A Child Is Missing. The program utilizes satellite technology to make phone calls to specific geographical areas with the description of the person missing. The department has used the alert program 31 times and over 36,000 phones calls have been made to residents in the areas where the missing persons were reported.

The most recent case was October 6 and was another success. A nine year old boy was reported missing from his home in Garland County. More than 600 phone calls went out to residents within a two mile radius of the child’s home. These calls gave the boys description and asked the residents to check their property for the child and to call the Sheriff’s Office if located. Approximately 30 minutes after the phone calls were made, the child was found in a storage shed by a person that received one of calls. The child was about a mile away from his residence.

This is a great program and Sheriff Sanders would like to thank everyone that assisted in looking for this child.