15-05-2025
Mesa County Sheriff's Office introduces new AngelSense Program
MESA COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) – The Mesa County Sheriff's Office is launching a new safety initiative called the AngelSense Program.
The program is committed to helping quickly locate and recover residents at risks of wandering due to conditions like autism, dementia, Alzheimer's and other developmental disabilities or medically induced cognitive conditions.
The new program comes from a partnership with AngelSense, which supplies technology for people with disabilities or conditions that could affect cognitive abilities.
Said technology are things like a wearable device that has an auto-pickup speakerphone as well as an SOS button, a proactive monitoring and alerting system and application for caregivers.
With help from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and its Persons Who Wander Grant, the sheriff's office has already provided 22 wearable AngelSense devises to those at risks of wandering. The devices send a location updates every 10 seconds from any distance.
If those at risk of wandering do get lost, caregivers or loved ones can provide a link to law enforcement which gives them an up-to-date location helping to find the individual in timely manner.
'We are excited to offer this program to our community members in Mesa County,' said MCSO Sgt. Ross Young. 'It has been a team effort to select a service provider that we believe will improve the ability for law enforcement to locate individuals at-risk of wandering in our community should they become lost. While we never hope to need this technology, we look forward to seeing AngelSense in action to help locate these individuals quickly.'
For those curious in the latest technology, applications to an enrollment process can be submitted through the Mesa County Sheriff's website. After the application is received, specialists will review it and contact the person behind the submission for interview to finalize the enrollment process.
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