Ontario Provincial Police say a software update by a third party resulted in an Amber Alert not going out to cellphones across the province this week.
An Amber Alert was issued early Thursday for a three-month-old girl believed to have been abducted by her father. She was later found safe and the father was taken into custody.
OPP say the Amber Alert sent just before 3;30 a.m. went out to cell phones in the area around Roseneath, Ont., where the girl was last seen, but did not go to cellphones provincewide.
They say today that an automated third-party software update led to a technical issue that prevented the alert from being distributed as it was meant to be.
OPP say they contacted the Provincial Emergency Operations Centre when they realized the alert wasn’t going out properly and it was able to issue the alert on the OPP’s behalf to LTE-connected wireless devices in the local area where the child was last seen.
Police say investigators had reason to believe the suspect had not travelled far and say the OPP’s Amber Alert system is now once again fully functional.
(The Canadian Press)
