Gwinnett officer uses creative tactics to find lost woman’s family

The Brief

  • Officer Voss used translation tools, records searches and field resources to identify a lost woman with no ID.
  • Analysts in the Situational Awareness and Crime Response Center located the woman’s address after Voss gathered key details.
  • The woman was safely reunited with family who had not realized she was missing.

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. Gwinnett County police are crediting persistence and teamwork after an officer spent nearly an hour working to reunite a lost elderly woman with her family earlier this fall.

What we know:

Officer Voss with the department’s Behavioral Health unit was dispatched on September 12 after a concerned citizen reported finding an older woman wandering in a neighborhood. The caller told police he had tried driving her around to locate her home, but she was unable to communicate where she lived.

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