CHILD SAFETY ALERT: Facebook and police join forces to find missing children

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CHILD SAFETY ALERT: Facebook and police join forces to find missing children By Bheki C. Simelane

The South African Police Service and social media giant Facebook on Thursday 30 January announced a partnership to help speedily find missing children.

“The phenomenon of missing children is pandemic… Out of 200 cases that will be reported monthly, we will recover half and have the perpetrators jailed,” said Lieutenant-General Tebello Mosikili. Vacher said South Africa is the 23rd country to have access to the Amber Alert tool, which was named in honour of an American girl, Amber, who was abducted while playing near her home.Amber Alert will be welcome in a country where a child goes missing every five hours, according to figures released by the SAPS Missing Persons Bureau for 2013 .

 

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