Re:Advice for educating police force

January 11, 2008

Wow! Bless you for educating the police force.

Our son escaped out of our home three times in one

week, even managing to find where we hid our keys. On

two of the incidents, neighbors found him and called

police because he was not able to say his name or

where he lived. The third incident, we found him.

Since then, we have installed combination locks on all

doors and it has solved our problem.

However, we did have a CPS officer come to our house

and open a case on us because our son ran away. She

was not very educated about autism, and said she

" googled autism " before coming to our home. The entire

incident had me completely frazzled, and you can

imagine the thoughts I had about CPS taking my child

away!

I know that is standard procedure for the police to

follow, but it would be helpful for them to know that

autistic individuals are: nonverbal, have no sense of

danger (can run away or in front of cars), and can be

emotional/ agressive. I would also be very happy if

someone in CPS was a trained officer in autism.

Just my 2 cents...

Thanks!

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