Text used to report missing children

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), along with the Philippine National Police and the Department of Interior and Local Governments, have launched a website for missing children and other persons below 18, according to Inq./7net.

"The DSWD urged the public to regularly check out sagipbata.com  - "sagip bata" meaning Tagalog for "save the children" -, which posts photos and basic information about the missing and report "recovered" persons and their happy reunion with their families. (PS. website is not active yet though or it's at another adress I cannot find)

In August, the US Justice Department official announced that Amber Alerts , a US nationwide network to help find missing children, should go nationwide by next year. The system is already existing in 45 States.

The Amber Alert network that once depended on fax and e-mail to relay images and messages now relies on digital images and other technology that can spread word about a missing child within minutes to everywhere from cell phones to lottery ticket machines.

emily | 4:00 PM | SMS used by the Police |
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