Sign Up Now
Get instant access to over 1 million+ study documents
OR
Already registered? click here to login
By creating your account, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and student honor code.
HRAP is organized to immediately notify the media so the information can be broadcast to all area residents via both radio and television.
HRAP is organized to work carefully but efficiently. To generate an Amber Alert, a law enforcement agency first establishes that the missing person meets the criteria. Working quickly, a local, state or federal law enforcement agency verifies that certain circumstances exist:
the missing child is under 18 years old the law enforcement agency believes an abduction has occurred it seems likely that the child may be at immediate risk for physical harm the agency has enough information to give to the media to help find the child there is no other credible explanation to explain the child's absence (Klaas Kids).
The agency then quickly notifies the Texas Department of Public Safety with the information they have. They in turn issue the Amber Alert, which is broadcast using the system of communications and broadcast that have already been established as the "Emergency Alert System." This is what has made it so easy for communities to establish Amber Alert systems: officials and broadcast organizations have already worked together for decades to make sure that radio and television could alert people to dangerous situations. Once the Amber Alert System has been set up by local authorities, reporting a missing child, or information about that child, is as easy as dialing 9-1-1 (Klaas Kids).
While...
As soon as someone called about Roach's new "daughter," the information was fed into the Amber Alert System. Since it was issued on a statewide basis and because the Amber Alert system gives such cases the prominence and urgency they need, the law enforcement officers in Quanah realized that this baby might be Nancy Chavez.
While the abduction of Nancy Chavez was a nightmare for her mother, the infant was in the safe custody of police in Quanah only 12 hours after she was first snatched. Amber Alert systems, developed after the tragic loss of a little girl in Arlington, protects the children of Houston today.
SOURCES
Houston Regional Amber Plan: a cooperative public service effort to safely recover abducted children "in Gabriel's Gifts: Missing Children's Organization.
Accessed via the Internet 3/5/05. http://www.amber-plan.net/
How Amber Alert Works" in How Stuff Works. Accessed via the Internet 3/5/05. http://ibs.howstuffworks.com/ibs/bos/amber-alert3.htm
Klaas Kids Foundation. Updated 10/21/02. Accessed via the Internet 3/5/05. http://www.klaaskids.org/amst-tex.htm
Accessed via the Internet 3/5/05. http://www.amber-plan.net/
How Amber Alert Works" in How Stuff Works. Accessed via the Internet 3/5/05. http://ibs.howstuffworks.com/ibs/bos/amber-alert3.htm
Klaas Kids Foundation. Updated 10/21/02. Accessed via the Internet 3/5/05. http://www.klaaskids.org/amst-tex.htm
Warning systems are essential to communicating threats, whether man-made, technological, or natural, to the public. In this paper, we provide a summary overview of at least two types of disaster warning systems used in the international disaster community or a nation's communication system (other than the U.S.). The disaster warning systems in this paper are the flood warning system (Flood Alerts Map) used in the UK and Japanese Earthquake Early
Tsunami Warning Systems as Potential Disaster Mitigaters Large-scale disasters are more possible in today's world than ever before. Due to both natural and man-made phenomena, the latter of which comprises everything from global warming to nuclear weapons, catastrophes are much more prescient. These disasters have been seen in various instances, especially in the Pacific, the most recent of which is the tsunami that hit Japan. Tsunamis are a deadly natural force
When the overindulge had taken place, the GuardianBlue Early Warning System not only alarmed but also categorized the probable reason of the problem to be a fluoride overfeed. This then permitted a quick reply before customers of water were unprotected to possibly hazardous heights of fluoride. Fluoride, while deadly at reasonable to high doses, is usually measured helpful for dental health at doses that were very low. The most
Tsunami Warning System The December 2004 tsunami shocked the world, literally taking it by storm. It killed nearly 300,000 people in Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and its devastating effects were felt as afar away as Africa, where several people died as a result. The tsunami was preceded and directly caused by a magnitude 9.15 earthquake that occurred off the coast of Sumatra. Although there was a significant lag between the
To the extent the totality of circumstances suggest that possibility, even acceptance of the most nominal gratuities (i.e. A cup of coffee) is ethically inappropriate. Similarly, even where the gratuity involved is of nominal value and there is no potential misunderstanding on the part of the individual proffering an otherwise appropriate gratuity, there is the issue of creating the appearance or inference of an improper relationship from the perspective of
Additionally, Weston Smith's wife Susan Jones-Smith, was also a finance executive at the company, a further example of the incestuous relationships that characterized the financial leadership of HealthSouth. A failure of the company meant the failure in the financial future of the family of one's friends and spouses. Another warning sign should have been the nature of the company's assets. The firm was able to conceal its financial shenanigans for