The Maryland State Police is teaming up with Comcast to provide critical law enforcement programming. “Missing in Maryland” On Demand is a new video on demand feature, produced by CN8, The Comcast Network, designed to assist police in finding missing children statewide.
Through video on demand technology, Comcast digital cable customers can access identifying information on missing children throughout the state. Viewers, while remaining anonymous, who have information that could lead to the recovery of a missing child can call the Maryland Center for Missing Children at 800-MDS-KIDS.
The Missing in Maryland profiles are one minute segments featuring photographs of each child, their birth date, the day they were reported missing, along with a physical description. Initially, 15 children will be profiled. Of the reported instances of missing kids in Maryland each year, a vast majority are considered endangered runaways and many remain missing for extended periods of time.
“Involving the public in our quest to locate missing children offers great assistance to law enforcement,” says Colonel Thomas E. Hutchins, Secretary of the Maryland Department of State Police. “We truly appreciate innovative ways to reunite youth with their parents or guardians through the use of new technology.”