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.…