Status of Women committee  Yes, I think you had it basically correct. They're using the zone alerts or the community alerts at the lowest level and using Pelmorex, the subscription-based model that could be enacted in.... I'm sorry. It's not Pelmorex. It's the Everbridge subscription-based model that communities could have set up.

Status of Women committee  There are a couple of things we can do in order to prevent what we've coined “alert fatigue”. The first is having thresholds. For example, we have in Sudbury in the neighbourhood of 600 missing indigenous persons reported every year. Most of those investigations are concluded swiftly, with no media releases and with no need to publicize that person's information—photo, name, that kind of thing.

Status of Women committee  We have spoken about using a tiered system of alerts. Starting at the lowest level, there would be a sort of closed system, which we use right now within our community service agencies, our shelters and our friendship centre and other organizations like that. When somebody goes missing, we literally send an email to those places so they are aware of the person, and then they can reach out to us.

Status of Women committee  I would say our biggest obstacle when we need that immediate action is the delays associated with putting out our release and having it picked up by the media and then forwarded on to the general public, unless we're dealing with an Amber alert, which obviously goes though a different system.

Status of Women committee  We put it out on our social media. We use Twitter—or X—and Facebook as our two main platforms, but if you're not following us as a police service, you're not going to see it. We encourage family members and other community members to forward our posts or take screenshots, but you're still relying on someone paying attention to someone else's social media.

Status of Women committee  I think we've had great success here, and we have good relations with our community. I do know it is an issue. I have had community members here whose loved ones are in a different service area, and either they are hesitant to go to that police service or there are some other barriers in place.

Status of Women committee  I'm going to give all that credit, or most of it, to Constable Rivers and his predecessors, but it is something we work on every day. I work particularly closely with our child welfare agencies. We have three indigenous agencies here in the city, and I work with them and our kids every day.

Status of Women committee  I'm not hearing anything.

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon, Madam Chair and committee members. First of all, I appreciate the invitation to speak on the important topic of the red dress alert today. I acknowledge that we're the only police service speaking here, or at least, we're the only one that I've been made aware of.