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Raymond Cho, Minister for Seniors and Accessibility<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With more than 240,000 Ontario seniors currently living with some form of dementia, being able to locate seniors in the first 24 hours after they go missing is crucial to saving lives.
\nThe province is putting the safety of seniors first by providing police officers with more tools to respond quickly and effectively to missing persons investigations.
\n\u201cEvery minute counts when a senior goes missing to help keep them safe. This is another example of how our government is putting seniors and their families first by providing essential frontline services new tools to help find our missing loved ones faster,\u201d said Raymond Cho, Minister for Seniors and Accessibility in a press release. \u201cWe are protecting what matters most to help seniors live independently in their communities, while also helping to ensure they are safe.\u201d
\nThe Missing Persons Act, proclaimed by the government on July 1, 2019, provides police with three additional tools to use when there is no evidence a crime has been committed. These tools will allow police to obtain copies of records that may assist in a search, obtain a search warrant to enter a premise to locate a missing person, and make an urgent demand for certain records without a court order.
\nThe act also include guidelines on what information police may disclose about a missing person before and after they have been located.
\nPreviously, when a person went missing without evidence of criminal activity, police were limited in the ways they could investigate. With this new legislation, police can now respond to missing persons investigations quicker, while balancing concerns for an individual\u2019s privacy.
\nSixty per cent of people living with dementia will go missing at some point, often without warning, according to the release, and 50 per cent of those who go missing for 24 hours or more risk serious injury or death.
\n\u201cPolice and family members tell us that the first hours after someone goes missing are the most critical,\u201d said Sylvia Jones, Solicitor General. \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re providing our frontline heroes with more tools to quickly find our loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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