According to the Daily News, Dayton’s Police Department promised that each missing persons case, especially those regarding children, are taken seriously, adding that extensive measures will be performed to ensure each person is “safe and returned home.”

Different factors, like the child’s age, their developmental status, medical needs and whether they are drug dependent or could be in the company of adults who endanger their welfare, are all taken into account to calculate how high-risk the situations are.

“The Dayton Police Department takes every report of a missing child seriously,” Dayton police Lt. Jason Hall said, according to the Daily News. “In addition to a detective whose focus is missing children, we work in collaboration with both federal and local partners to ensure children are safe and returned home.”

In 2020, Ohio law enforcement submitted 16,330 missing children reports. Most of the missing cases were closed with satisfactory results, with over 97% being located and safely returned home by the end of the year. Though, that still left 450 missing cases unresolved.

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