The California Highway Patrol posted a Silver Alert for a missing person in San Pedro.
CHP posted the alert and tagged @LAPDMPU, according to a bulletin posted by CHP - Alerts.
, the agency's account for disseminating details and flyers on active alerts. Anyone who spots Suhre or his vehicle is urged to call 911 immediately. All California Silver Alert requests are evaluated and coordinated centrally through CHP's Emergency Notification and Tactical Alert Center, known as ENTAC, a 24-hour command unit based at the agency's Sacramento headquarters, according to the
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When Freeway Signs May Be Used
Under California Government Code § 8594.10, a law enforcement agency must determine that a vehicle may be involved and that specific vehicle identification is available for public dissemination for alert details to be displayed on overhead freeway Changeable Message Signs, according to FindLaw.
San Pedro falls under the jurisdiction of LAPD's Harbor Community Police Station, located at 2175 John S. Gibson Blvd. The Silver Alert program itself is one of six specialized missing-person alert categories the state manages, alongside AMBER, Blue, Feather, Ebony, and Endangered Missing Advisory alerts.
The Legal Threshold Before an Alert Goes Out
California set a high bar before local police can request this kind of statewide broadcast. Under Government Code § 8594.10, agencies may only request a Silver Alert after exhausting local search resources and determining that a missing person aged 65 or older, cognitively impaired, or developmentally disabled vanished under unexplained or suspicious circumstances and is believed to be in peril, according to FindLaw.
LAPD's Adult Missing Persons Unit handles a substantial caseload citywide, processing roughly 3,200 missing adult reports annually, or an average of 250 to 300 cases each month.
Anyone who sees the person is asked to call 911.
