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'Blue Alert System' proposed to help when officer is injured or killed

There's the Amber Alert system to help find missing or abducted children.  A Silver Alert System to help find missing seniors.  Now Connecticut could be the latest state to enact a Blue Alert System. 

 

Newtown Representative Mitch Bolinsky says the House unanimously passed a bill last week that would create an emergency alert system to to alert the public when a law enforcement officer has been killed, seriously injured, or missing and a suspect, considered an imminent threat, is at large. 

 

There is no fiscal impact by creating this system because the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection can implement it using existing infrastructure.  Representatives Jan Giegler and David Arconti were also among the bill's co-sponsors.

 

The bill was moved to the Senate calendar on Friday.

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