ATLANTA - The GBI is hailing the Kimberly's Call system as a success after the the arrest Tuesday of a suspect in a Habersham County armed robbery less than a day after the alert was sounded.
Kimberly's Call - which was instituted four years ago - is an emergency alert issued by police when violent criminals are at large and may be of serious threat to the public.
It is named for Kimberly Boyd, a Cobb County woman, abducted and robbed and later killed in 2005 in a traffic accident involving her SUV which was being driving by her kidnapper - an escaped murderer and rapist.
It works in the same was as Georgia's Levi's Call, for missing youngsters, and Mattie's Call, for missing adults. Special alerts are sounded in the affected areas and notices are placed on interstate highway message boards.
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October 10th, 2024
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