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May 18, 2009

New Cell Phone-based Child Safety Tool Unveiled


AMBER Ready, Inc. offers a wireless program that enables parents to securely store their child's identity information within their wireless phone as a technology platform for police to disseminate an alert from a parents' wireless phone immediately upon a child being abducted or found to be missing.



 

 
AMBER Ready now said they offer parents and law enforcement officials the quickest way to send missing child alerts through their newly unveiled cell phone-based child safety tool. The company has also planned a 30 city tour to promote this product.
 
By having a child’s profile stored and locked in the parent’s wireless phone, police can send a child missing alert within a matter of minutes instead of hours.
 
AMBER Ready's CEO, Kai Patterson said that when a child goes missing, it’s an unbearable ordeal for the child’s parents and that in America it takes too long for parents and law enforcement officials to start a search of the missing child.
 
But, with the AMBER Ready program, Patterson said, it is possible to greatly shorten the time it takes for the process of gathering and distributing the missing child’s info. to other officials who are searching. Patterson cites statistics that more than 58,000 children are abducted each year and 52 percent of all missing children reports are made after the child has been missing for two hours.
 
"In the event that a child is abducted or goes missing, a police officer can send the child's profile stored in a parent's cell phone and home computer directly to other law enforcement agencies, airports, news stations and the Amber Alert network. This can shave hours off the time it takes to issue an alert about a missing child," said Patterson.
 
AMBER Ready users receive a child safety kit that contains a safety DVD with an Internet and wireless phone child safety course; saliva DNA & fingerprint kit with a dental chart; free Internet child safety tools; and emergency wireless phone car charger with multiple charging jacks to fit any phone.
 
Jon Adler, National President of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA) commented, "In law enforcement, protecting our most precious assets, our children, remains our top priority.”

Nathesh is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Nathesh's articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Jessica Kostek




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