[Dramatic Music] BOEC Dispatch: Anyone's able to clear. I've got a call 49 and Powell, the U-Haul drop off. The caller said their vehicle was stolen with their seven year old child inside. Sgt Barnard: Almost seven o'clock I heard the call come out. There was a car stolen and then there was a seven year old child. Mom got out of the car pretty momentary, at best. Katherine Kisiel: Portland Police say that she was last seen sleeping in a car when someone stole that car with her still in it. Thomas Kurtsbein II: Tension is palpable in the center when we received calls like this. BOEC Dispatch: The caller did not see which direction it went. Sgt Barnard: And I heard Officer Jade Lowry and Officer Garrett Wilson self dispatch to it. Speaker 5: She was in a black 2011 Honda civic Officer Lowery: Already cars kind of realized also what the call was and immediately started attaching to come and assist us. Officer Bianchini: This Is more important than what we are going to. We're going to divert and head that way and see if we can help out. Thomas Kurtsbein II: Many of our staff have families and children of their own. Officer Bianchini: We both have kids about the same age. Officer Lowery: If this was my kid and my sister or my family member, I would want everyone to do as much as they could and more to find her.Guys can just area check close by while we try to get some camera footage to see which direction this car traveled. More likely than not, they're going to notice a kid in there, maybe dump it? We know statistically that with a crime of opportunity with a kid inside, usually once that person realizes that there's a kid in there that they don't want to be a part of that. Sgt Barnard: They're found within maybe a few blocks less than a mile away. Officer Wilson: You find them, like you find them within 30 minutes. BOEC Dispatch: They're going to assign streets to Area Tech. Sgt Barnard: They had started setting up a grid search. Just check every street, every little side street. Officer Wilson: We want to be able to say a hundred percent, we've checked every single street. Officer Bianchini: If you're driving like that, every car that you see that's black, that's a Honda. You notice every one of them. There's a lot. Officer Wilson: We can get 84 to check Northwest of us, 44 to check Southwest. When we realize we're not finding this car, we need to change what this is. Sgt Barnard: What are the things that we haven't done yet? Officer Wilson: Go door to door here and see if we've got [inaudible 00:02:05] cameras. Maybe they might have caught which direction this guy went? We assigned officers to go to houses along a northbound route looking for cameras on houses. Sgt Barnard: To see if we can get sort of a breadcrumb trail. Officer Wilson: As they did that, they communicated with people. They saw, "Hey, at this timestamp we have the car moving this direction." And they go to the next one and the next one and they got a path going. Speaker 1: There's good video of a suspect vehicle going northbound. BOEC Dispatch: Copy. Sgt Barnard: It's where we were at for I think the first hour or two. Officer Wilson: The more time was passing, the more worried we were getting. Sgt Barnard: There was some growing concerns too about maybe there's other motivations on this suspect that we don't know anything about. Officer Lowery: I'm starting to ask, Okay, what do we need for Amber Alert? What kind of parameters do we have to meet? Thomas Kurtsbein II: We can't just automatically reach out to Oregon State Police and say, "You need to issue an Amber Alert." There are certain criteria, there's a certain process that needs to be followed. Sgt Barnard: As law enforcement we have to show or be able to articulate why we believe she's in immediate danger. Officer Lowery: It hit those parameters, which is terrifying. Speaker 10: This is breaking news. Katherine Kisiel: Breaking news for you tonight. Just minutes ago, an Amber Alert was sent out for a missing seven year old girl. Sgt Barnard: Having never activated the Amber Alert System or been directly a part of that, it was refreshing to see the outpour of tips that we were getting through BOEC. Speaker 1: 3925. We're getting lots of tips. Thomas Kurtsbein II: We essentially act as the initial call taking point for the tip line associated with the event. Sgt Barnard: The calls for tips, they were coming in pretty steadily. BOEC Dispatch: We're getting a caller... Information. There's a medic unit that just rolled past a black Honda.We have a caller saying 45 ago... Officer Lowery: When the Amber Alert did happen, it was really cool to hear a couple officers who were doing the door to door looking for ring cameras. They said there was a shift from pre Amber Alert. It was really hard to get people to come to the door and immediately when that Amber Alert came out, people were coming to the door with their phones out, looking at their cameras. BOEC Dispatch: Got a house with video showing you going westbound. Officer Wilson: Generally the path was kind of North Northwest. Officer Bianchini and Officer Buday kind of keyed in on that. I just kind of told them, "Hey, when you guys are done with that, just go to where you think this is going to be." Officer Lowery: And took that with their years of experience and said, "Okay, this is where someone more likely would probably dump this car potentially." Officer Bianchini: We ended up at Roll Hurst Park. Sgt Barnard: At that point, we were setting up a command post to kind of extend this into a prolonged period of operation. Officer Lowery: Mid-sentence, everybody kind of goes still because we get an update on the radio that Bianchini and Buday, they see a Honda Civic at Laurelhurst Park. Sgt Barnard: So I think everybody in the room heard that and we're kind of holding our breath. BOEC Dispatch: Black Honda Civic unknown plates, getting on southbound 205 from Johnson Creek. Officer Bianchini: 44, we got her. BOEC Dispatch: Where are you? 944, where are you? Officer Bianchini: On side of Laurelhurst Park, car is occupied by only the child. You didn't know it was the car at first. Officer Buday: Yep. It's like, Oh look, there's a car. Just go look at it. Pull up and we get out and I look at it. It's like it's a Honda Civic, so I get excited. There's no plates on it. Get more excited. Walk up to the car and I see the kid in the back. I just yell, "We got her." Sgt Barnard: I was relieved, I was absolutely relieved. Officer Lowery: Everybody had a smile on their face. I thought, "Awesome." Officer Bianchini: Knocking on a window because she was still asleep in the backseat. But luckily she woke up and she was happy and didn't even know that she was taken by somebody in the car. That's the best case scenario. And she's awake now. She's fine. Officer Wilson: I was in the [inaudible 00:05:35] scene, and Jay's like, "Hey, I'm going to go notify the family with one of the detectives." I was like, "No way, are you going in there by yourself." So I got to come with her. I just kind of was standing over in the doorway. She kind of notified mom and everyone in the room, completely spirits lifted and everything changed. I mean, it was one of those very rare experiences that you get to see. This was a huge, huge moment for them. Sgt Barnard: We wanted to make sure that medically she was okay. No, just double check, triple check, make sure there's no injuries, nothing of concern. And then had an officer bring her back to the precinct to get reunited with Mom. Speaker 10: Fox 12 caught these moments last night when that little girl and her mom hugged after they were reunited here. Officer Buday: This is what doing this job can be. Thomas Kurtsbein II: We often don't get to know the resolution to the calls that we process for our partners. So in a case like this where there's a positive outcome, where we know the child is safe, it's amazing. It's a good feeling. Officer Wilson: Being able to see that. That end result. I mean, that's very unique and maybe never again in my career. Officer Buday: This call was a prime example, why I became a police officer, to help somebody. Even if you get one of these opportunities in a year or in your career, it's worth it. It's worth it.