Hard to believe that Ms Robertson has still not been located.
June 11 2020
Police getting radio technology to track missing people
''Police say the longer it takes to find people with dementia and others prone to wander off, the harder it is to find them and find them in good health.
Local police are gaining a new tool which could dramatically shorten the search time. Police will be able to track the whereabouts of missing people whose caregivers have signed them up to wear a radio-broadcasting bracelet.
Hunters use similar radio technology to track their hunting dogs in the bush.''
''Even on a warm summer day, any clues to the whereabouts of a wanderer can be quickly erased by time and weather.''
''And every hour, the search area expands to account for the distances the wandering person could have travelled – more so when the direction of travel is unknown, said Bishop, whose experience includes oversight of these searches with Waterloo police.''
''It’s extremely frightening for families,” she said. “And once they leave your property they can disappear – you don’t know where they are.”
“And oftentimes with older folks, they will walk back to the farm where they used to live. And that puts them at great risk because sometimes they’re within a town or a city setting and they head out to the country, on foot.”
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“Police and family members tell us that the first hours after someone goes missing are the most critical,” said Sylvia Jones, Solicitor General. “That’s why we’re providing our frontline heroes with more tools to quickly find our loved ones.”
Fifty per cent of those who go missing for 24 hours or more risk serious injury or even death.
Sixty per cent of people living with dementia will go missing at some point, often without warning.
There is no requirement to wait 24 hours to report someone missing in Ontario.
Nearly 7,500 people were reported missing in Ontario in 2018.
Most of the media in the western GTA are quick to publish and broadcast information on a missing person. Most of the time they are found before the end of the day or the day after.
Some are never found – and we mourn, terrified that something like this could happen to our loved ones.
Joseph Barr, the Detective that handled the Helen Robertson case knows that he will wonder for the rest of his career what happened and what was that missing piece of information he didn’t have.
Emits a signal every second 24/7
Since the disappearance of Helen Robertson the Regional Police came up with a service that, if used properly, can be critical in finding someone missing''
