The Police Department participates with the nation's law enforcement officers and the Department of Justice to implement the AMBER Alert program. The America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response Alert Plan was created as a legacy to 9-year old Amber Hagerman who was kidnapped and murdered in 1996 in Arlington, Texas. As a result of Amber's murder, the Dallas / Fort Worth Association of Radio Managers teamed up with local law enforcement in northern Texas and developed this early warning system to help find abducted children. National coordination of state and local AMBER Alert programs began in 2003.