Police have located a lost bushwalker after quick thinking police dispatchers got the lost woman to download the Emergency+ app on her smart phone, NSW Police say.
About 6pm last night today, police were called to the Mooray walking track at Heathcote following reports of a lost bushwalker.
Following the call, NSW police dispatchers contacted the lost 56-year-old woman and advised her to download the Emergency+ app on her smart phone in order to give emergency services her exact GPS co-ordinates.
After getting her location from the Emergency+ app, officers from the Sutherland Local Area Command and Miranda Local Area Command were able to establish a concise search area in order to find the woman from Erskineville.
The NSW Police Force, along with NSW Rural Fire Service and NSW Ambulance, then successfully located the woman safe and well.
Inspector Merrett of Miranda Local Area Command would like to thank the police search crews and members of the NSW Rural Fire Service and NSW Ambulance for their assistance with the search.
"Having the exact GPS co-ordinates from the Emergency+ app impacted our response time significantly. The app works in both urban and rural areas and we encourage everybody that owns a smart phone to download the app, particularly regular travellers and bushwalkers," Inspector Merrett said.
The Emergency+ app uses GPS functionality built into smart phones to help a Triple Zero (000) caller to provide critical location details required to mobilise emergency services. The app is available to download on the App Store, Google Play Store and Windows Phone Store. In the event of an emergency you are able to use this app to call emergency services directly and give them your exact GPS co-ordinates for a quicker response time. For more information on the app head to: http://emergencyapp.triplezero.gov.au/
