WOODSTOCK, Ontario, May 27 (UPI) -- The Canadian province of Ontario will review its Amber Alert missing children system on the heels of an 8-year-old girl's abduction and death, police said.
Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino said no alert was issued following last month's abduction of Victoria Stafford in Woodstock because police didn't have all the criteria they needed, the London (Ontario) Free Press reported.
Specifically, Oxford Community Police didn't have details on a suspect vehicle, which is mandatory under the province's existing criteria before an Amber Alert is issued to the media.
In an interview on Rogers TV, Fantino said a review would determine if some rules needed softening, but he didn't favor too much relaxation of the criteria.
"We don't want it to become a routine thing" in every missing child case, he said.
The name of the media alert system stands for America's Missing Broadcast Emergency Response program. It was created in Texas in 1996 and was adopted in Canada in 2003.
Meanwhile, a man and woman were arrested last week in the girl's abduction and killing, although her remains have yet to be found, the newspaper said. The 28-year-old man is in jail under a suicide watch, while his 18-year-old girlfriend is assisting police in the search for the body about 50 miles east of Woodstock, the report said.
