An AMBER Alert issued in Florida has resulted in the location of a 15-year old girl in Troy. Law enforcement officers from Houston County, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Niceville (Fla.) Police Department and Florida Department of Law Enforcement recovered Janelle Angelea Adkins at 300 Second Avenue Tuesday evening. (...) Adkins left the Troy house with Florida law enforcement. Scarbrough said that no arrests were made in Troy. (...) AMBER is the acronym for America's Missing Broadcast Emergency Response and is a voluntary partnership between law enforcement and local broadcasters, who have agreed to allow the Emergency Alert System to be activated in the event a person under the age of 18 is abducted. The AMBER plan has four distinct purposes: to provide a rapid response to the most serious child abduction cases; to gain the assistance of thousands of television viewers and radio listeners through the coverage area; to coerce the kidnapper to release the child for fear of arrest; and to deter people from committing the crime. It was implemented in Alabama June 1, 2003.
Interesting information. Keep on the lookout for those AMBER alerts and help find missing children. Ten-thousands of children go missing each year in the Southeast U.S. Most are family-related or runaways, not violent abductions by strangers, but the numbers are staggering just as well!
