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Woodstock, Cherokee County, Ga. December 11, 2003 "This is an urgent message from your local Sheriff's Office. We are currently looking for a missing child in your area. The missing child's name and description is……." This is a message you could be hearing when you answer the phone.
Thanks to the non-profit organization, A Child Is Missing, Inc. (ACIM, Inc) law enforcement agencies can use a new tool to help find a child, elderly persons or disabled persons quicker than ever. ACIM, Inc. provides law enforcement agencies with a neighborhood calling system using the latest technology to aid in the recovery of a missing person in the first critical hours of their disappearance, by linking law enforcement with the community via rapid response telephone communication. The Georgia Sheriffs' Association, Inc. is making sure this new technology and training is available to local law enforcement agencies statewide so they can do more when a loved one is lost, missing or kidnapped. ACIM, Inc. has served law enforcement in other areas of the United States since 1997 and to date 3.2 million alert calls have been made to help find missing individuals. ACIM, Inc. has been credited by law enforcement with 49 safe recoveries in the last 23 months.
Deputies from the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office attended a training seminar to launch this program in Georgia: December 11, 2003 at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth, Georgia.
