The program, A Child is Missing, works with law enforcement agencies across the country to help find missing children. &8220;It&8217;s a good program with no cost to the county,&8221; Sheriff Ronny Brown said Wednesday. A deputy at the scene will take a description of the child and the situation. He will immediately call a phone number and report the information. Within 15 minutes, a voice recording is made. The program then calls phone numbers in the area where the child went missing, asking people to look around for the child. &8220;If everybody&8217;s looking, chances are good somebody&8217;s going to see the child,&8221; Brown said. In one minute, 1,000 calls are dialed to residential and business numbers in the area, Brown said. &8220;We were impressed with how fast the message would get out to people&8221; when the system was demonstrated at a sheriff&8217;s conference, Brown said. Any law enforcement agency in the nation can use the system, but it helps if their officers go through a brief training beforehand. Deputies will be trained in how the system works over the next few weeks, he said. The system can be used to find missing Alzheimer&8217;s patients, as well. It can also be used to let citizens know a sex offender has moved into a neighborhood. Like the Mississippi online sex offender database, though, the system does not give details of the offense. It does not, for example, discriminate between statutory rape and child molestation. That is the one downside of the system, Brown said. &8220;Some people want a little more detail,&8221; he said. &8220;There&8217;s a lot of different sex offenders.&8221; On the whole, though, Brown is optimistic about the new system. Not only can the system inform residents, it can provide additional information to law enforcement, too. Tiffany Delit-Garcia, a representative for A Child is Missing, said although the deputies may be familiar with the area, they may not know useful details. Because the program uses a satellite mapping program to identify the search area, they have a detailed view of the neighborhood. &8220;We can say, &8216;Did you know there&8217;s a swimming pool in this area?&8217;&8221; Delit-Garcia said. &8220;We can hone in on such small details. Even though (officers) know their area very well, there may be some place they did not think to check.&8221; Karla Phipps, a Natchez mother, said she thought the plan was a good idea. &8220;I have three kids of my own, so I think there&8217;s a real good idea of a program,&8221; Phipps said. Mom Sandra Earl said while she liked the idea, losing her child was not something she thought much about. &8220;We don&8217;t really have those kinds of problems around here,&8221; Earl said. &8220;It could happen, but I really haven&8217;t had to worry about that.&8221;