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| Amber Alert Section |
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Welcome to the Shawnee Police Department's Amber Alert Section. During an Amber Alert, those with information can call (405) 878-1777 and speak to any
one of the team members.
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About the Amber Alert Section
The Shawnee Police Department is a part of the Oklahoma’s Amber Plan, a child abduction
recovery program. The Amber Alert warning system was set up in the name of Amber Hagerman.
Amber was 9 years old and living in Arlington, Texas. On January 13, 1996, she was riding
her bicycle in her neighborhood when a neighbor heard her scream. The neighbor saw a man
pull Amber into the front of his pickup and drive away at high speed. The neighbor called
the police and provided a description of the man and the pickup. They conducted a search
but did not find Amber until 4 days later. Amber had been sexually assaulted, her throat
had been cut, and was placed in a ditch 4 miles away. To this day her attacker has not
been found.
To assist in our collaboration with Oklahoma’s Amber Plan, the Shawnee Police Department has created its first ever 'Amber Alert Team.' This team is comprised of 12 dispatchers and the Administrator of Support Services. The team will be called in when an Amber Alert has been issued, they will man the phones, take information concerning the child/children that has/have been kidnapped or abducted, and pass that information on to the officers working the situation. The calls will come into the Emergency Operations Center here at City Hall. |
Amber Alert Team
The reason for creating Shawnee’s new “Amber Alert Team” is that when an amber alert is
issued by the Department of Public Safety at our request, calls would normally come
directly into dispatch. At the same time, normal duty calls are coming in, regular
radio traffic is being run, calls for ambulances are occurring, fire responses are
coming in, etc. By creating the Amber Alert Team, they can take the calls from inside
Emergency Operations Center away from general traffic and concentrate on just
informational calls pertaining to the Amber Alert. This will improve our agencies
ability to collect information, disseminate the information quicker. We want to insure
that we don’t miss any information that might provide us with the means to find
the child (ren).
Members of the Amber Alert Team
Memebers of the Amber Alert Team consist of all 12 dispatchers of the Shawnee Police Dept.
and the Administrator of Support Services.
Trained volunteers of the Shawnee Police Department will also be utilized to support this operation. |