The son of a Coquitlam man who went missing nearly three years ago is lauding the success of the BC Silver Alert notification system for finding an elderly Burnaby woman on Sunday.
Sam Noh, whose father Shin Noh, went missing September 2013, says the automated system that reads police agency websites and posts information on social media channels, alerted a resident who spotted the woman, who was reunited with her family.
"I dreamed that would happen to us," said Noh.
He would like to see the government take on a program such as BC Silver Alert, now currently run by volunteers, because it would be more thorough and have a base of funding. He would like to see a Silver Alert app that would notify people in a geographical area when someone went missing.
"You have to work quickly," Noh said, pointing out that seniors with dementia sometimes go wandering and 25% die with the first 24 hours.
To date, the BC Silver Alert group, co-founded by Coquitlam Search and Rescue's Michael Coyle, has published information on 50 missing people, two of whom have still not been found.
