Calgary police scaling back physical search for missing 11-year-old boy
Calgary police have announced they are “refocusing” their efforts to locate an 11-year-old boy who has been missing since July 16 and has been the subject of a massive ground search by police, the Calgary Fire Department, Alberta Sheriffs, search and rescue workers and members of the community. View image in full screen Posters of the missing 11-year-old boy, who has been the subject of a massive ground search since he disappeared on July 16, line a fence in Calgary. Global News Parker, who is neurodivergent and non-verbal, was last seen in person at his dayhome in the 0 to 100 block of Connaught Drive near Northmount Drive Northwest sometime between 11:08 a.m. and 11:41 a.m. on July 16.
- ▪Calgary police have announced they are “refocusing” their efforts to locate an 11-year-old boy who has been missing since July 16 and has been the subject of a massive ground search by police, the Calgary Fire Department, Alberta Sheriffs,
- ▪View image in full screen Posters of the missing 11-year-old boy, who has been the subject of a massive ground search since he disappeared on July 16, line a fence in Calgary.
- ▪Global News Parker, who is neurodivergent and non-verbal, was last seen in person at his dayhome in the 0 to 100 block of Connaught Drive near Northmount Drive Northwest sometime between 11:08 a.m. and 11:41 a.m. on July 16.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 2 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Police end ground search for missing 11-year-old Calgary boy — The Globe and Mail
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Calgary police have announced they are “refocusing” their efforts to locate an 11-year-old boy who has been missing since July 16 and has been the subject of a massive ground search by police, the Calgary Fire Department, Alberta Sheriffs, search and rescue workers and members of the community. “Given the amount of time that has passed and the information available to investigators,” Calgary police Chief Katie McLellan announced Monday that police will be reducing the resources committed to the “physical” search for the boy, known only to searchers and the community as Parker.“Physical search efforts in his last known whereabouts and in Nose Hill Park, including nearby waterways, have been completed,” said McLellan.“However, we are not giving up,” she added, insisting that the search…
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