Project Lifesaver's portable radio signal tracking device is used to locate mental dysfunction victims who wander away;Police Chief Frank Hooper said it is a valuable tool if they are wearing an individualized wristband transmitter bracelets.
"With the number of assisted living facilities that we have here in Gainesville, and the hospital and a lot of medical care providers in the city, we do respond to several calls a year of missing elderly patients," Chief Hooper said. "If they have a bracelet, we can find them quickly."
"When we don't have something like that we commit a lot of resources."
Pilot Club president Linda Buffington said this is the fourth Lifesaver receiver the club has placed in Hall County; the Hall County Sheriff's Department has two of them and the City of Flowery Branch has one.
Buffington said the Pilot Club's goal is to provide six of them.
The tracking equipment costs around $3,000, the bracelets the patients wear cost around $300.
Information on Project Lifesaver in Gainesville and Hall County is available at 770-532-7392.
Pilot Club president Linda Buffington said this is the fourth Lifesaver receiver the club has placed in Hall County
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