Amber Alert idea floated to protect vulnerable women
Posted February 21, 2012 12:00 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Ideas on how to protect vulnerable women in BC are already flowing from the Missing Women Inquiry.
Four reports have been released which are meant to prevent deaths like those at the hands of Robert Pickton and those possibly along the Highway of Tears. There has been a series of unsolved murders along Highway 16, which runs between Prince George and Prince Rupert.
The inquiry recommends police set up an Amber Alert system for missing sex trade workers and post more female officers on the Downtown Eastside. It also says police patrolling the highway no longer drive past hitchhikers fitting a certain profile.
The reports also suggest that a restorative justice plan be created to improve the relationship between police and Canada’s poorest postal code.
The inquiry wants your feedback, which you can send in up until April 15th.
