Child Abduction Alert. Launched in 2011 as an innovative system that was meant to help find kidnapped children, it is currently not used by the police for any kidnapping complaints. In the video clip above you can see the advertisement made to promote the Child Abduction Alert system, which was implemented in Romania with European funds of 236.000 euros, being presented as one of the very few in the EU.
Child Abduction Alert. The years passed, and the system was used only once during this entire period, yes, you read that right, only once in 8 years, although current technology allows it to be used in the same way as E-ALERT. In 2011, the Child Kidnapping Alert system was designed to display warning messages for citizens that contained a photo of the kidnapped child, identification data, location, etc., being displayed in airports, train stations, bus stations, malls, radio and television.
Child Abduction Alert. RO-ALERT for KIDNAPPING, which DOES NOT WORK
Child Abduction Alert. The system was used only once in 8 years, and then in the case of an exercise carried out in 2018 in Timis, the police not using the system in any real case of kidnapping, although there are many. The Child Kidnapping Alert can be used for the kidnapping of children up to 18 years old, so also in the case of Caracal, and if the authorities had modernized the system, it could send, just like RO-ALERT, messages to people's phones.
Child Abduction Alert. iPhone and Android phones can receive the so-called "Amber Alerts", which in the US are sent when a child is fast, and they can also be received in Romania, if someone really wants that. Just as RO-ALERT sends a message to save a life, the Child Abduction Alert system can be modified to send an alert for a child who has been kidnapped to phones in a certain area.
Child Abduction Alert. The system currently exists only at a theoretical level, it is not used, it would definitely need many upgrades, and if the authorities wanted to, they could solve some kidnapping cases more quickly.
