CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — A new program aims to reunite missing children and adults with special needs with their families faster after police developed a digital mapping system that allows officers to quickly identify vulnerable residents.
The Clarksville Police Department receives frequent calls about children or adults with special needs who have left home and cannot find their way back. Angie Daniel, the dispatch CAD administrator for Clarksville Police and Fire, created the system to help officers respond more efficiently to these situations.
“Children with autism sometimes elope. They like to escape, and when they do that sometimes it can be 2 in the morning,” Daniel said. “If the children are nonverbal, they can’t say where they live.”…