A group of friends, along with Constable Scott Mills from the Toronto Police Service, demonstrated the power of social media to get the information out quickly for finding a missing child.

While Constable Scott Mills (@GraffitiBMXCop) presented at the International Fugitive’s Conference in Toronto, myself and a few people on Twitter posted links to new video on a missing child case and links to information on how others could help. Thanks @twittnick @drummond17 @paisleyrae @robcairns @csiworld and all those who sent our messages out again. You are all awesome. As a result of our efforts, these posts were reposted out on Twitter and Facebook. 25624 peeps were reached on Twitter as the tweets were retweeted.  On Facebook, 19982 accounts were reached as friends shared #findpearl links from the conference. Most of these connections happened over a 3 to 4 hour period of time.

Here is the video that was shared at the International Fugitives Conference:

 

“Scott Mills shared on how social media is changing how police services see the use of social media. Pearl’s father also shared his perspective on how social media is helping his efforts.”

Scott just shared this link for your information: http://internetviolenceprevention.com/2011/05/social-media-to-prevent-solve-crime-scott-mills-2008-interpol-fugitives-conference-presentation/

At the end of the day, our efforts gave this missing person’s case a lot more attention than it had before. I am hoping that someone will see the video or the pictures and call, text, Facebook or tweet Crime Stoppers or the Toronto Police Service. Social media has a lot of power to do good. In this case, see an abducted daughter returned.

Thank you to all those who retweeted or reposted the information from our efforts. Maybe the next video will be a grateful daughter climbing into the arms of her father. I hope you never see this happen to you. But if you do, there is help for you.

Here’s some links you can use:

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