Mobile app helps police find abducted girl
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A 2-year old girl has been rescued in central China’s Henan Province 32 hours after she was abducted, thanks to a new online platform.
The girl from southwest China’s Sichuan Province went missing around 4pm last Friday afternoon while she and her family were changing trains in Hengshui, a city in north China’s Hebei Province.
Police identified a man suspected of snatching the girl on the railway station’s CCTV and broadcast his description via both traditional media and the new Ministry of Public Security platform “Tuanyuan” — “reunion” in Chinese — based on Alibaba’s mobile app DingDing.
More than 5,000 police officers can provide updates on missing children via the platform, which was developed with the help of Alibaba.
Police everywhere can now share information and work together via the platform, said Liu Zhenfen, chief risk officer of Alibaba. Tuanyuan went live on May 11 and already has more than 150,000 followers.
Users near to where a child disappears receive push notifications, including photos and descriptions. The scope of these push notifications will be expanded over time, depending on the success of the system.
“If the child has been missing for one hour, the push notifications are sent within a radius of 100km; after two hours, 200km; three hours, 300km; and thereafter, 500km,” said Meng Qingtian of the MPS anti-trafficking squad.
Many people passed on information about the missing toddler to the police via the platform, said Meng, which helped officers find the missing girl within two days.
The suspect, a native of Anyang City, Henan Province, was arrested in the provincial capital of Zhengzhou. An investigation is under way.
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