Sheriff’s officials announced Monday an online expansion of a program designed to help authorities find Alzheimer’s patients and others with cognitive disabilities as quickly as possible should they go missing.
The “Take Me Home” service, which makes use of a database accessible by all local law enforcement agencies, is now available to the public at the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department‘s website, sdsheriff.net/tmh. Previously, applicants had to go to a sheriff’s station to file their paperwork.
The program allows families and caretakers to upload key information — including photographs, physical descriptions, areas frequented and emergency contacts — that can help public-safety personnel more rapidly track down dependent and at-risk people if they wander off from their homes or get lost during outings.
Such data can help bring about favorable outcomes in missing-person cases by narrowing down searches in their critical early stages, officials said.
— City News Service
