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Skowhegan dispatch center partners to help missing kids
9-1-1 in the News, Community | April | November 15, 2011 at 9:08 am
SKOWHEGAN, ME – Dispatchers in Somerset County are now better equipped to help law enforcement locate missing and abducted children.
The director and all of the staff at the Somerset County Communications Center underwent training last year with the the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Now dispatchers there have a new policy when dealing with missing kids. The Skowhegan facility also has a new template in their computer systems.
When a child goes missing that template immediately brings up a new screen with a list of questions about the missing child. That information is relayed to law enforcement much quicker to help them find the missing children. “Dispatch centers do great things every day,” said Michael Smith Director of the SCCC. “We answer medical calls we do really great things. But I can’t think of anything we could do any more important than facilitating the return of a missing or abducted child.”
Somerset County is the only dispatch center in Maine to join the Missing Kids and 911 Readiness Project.
The director there told us they take an average of 7-10 calls every week dealing with missing kids.
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