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Each group was given the same scenario at a mock command center. Two dummies were placed in the woods and the teams headed out in groups to try to find them.
“We have a drill of two missing people that walked away from their mother. We do have a suspicious male who was seen in the woods at the time the children went missing and the mom calls the police department 15 minutes after they initially go missing,” Pandya says of the exercise.
In the scenario, the two children have autism and are nonverbal – making it a specialized and unique situation for the first responders.
“They’re scared of loud noises so we can’t be running through the woods looking for them. screaming and yelling because they’re going to go further and further from us,” Pandya says.
Berlin Police Lt. TJ Varano says that training exercises like this are imperative.
“I think it’s important for our officers to get just something that’s out of the box, unique training. That it’s just something new that we’ve never done before, just to have that on your tool belt when you arrive on the scene like this,” he says.
Camden County authorities conduct missing persons drill
“We have a drill of two missing people that walked away from their mother. We do have a suspicious male who was seen in the woods at the time the children went missing and the mom calls the police department 15 minutes after they initially go missing,” Pandya says of the exercise.
In the scenario, the two children have autism and are nonverbal – making it a specialized and unique situation for the first responders.
“They’re scared of loud noises so we can’t be running through the woods looking for them. screaming and yelling because they’re going to go further and further from us,” Pandya says.
Berlin Police Lt. TJ Varano says that training exercises like this are imperative.
“I think it’s important for our officers to get just something that’s out of the box, unique training. That it’s just something new that we’ve never done before, just to have that on your tool belt when you arrive on the scene like this,” he says.
Camden County authorities conduct missing persons drill