Why isn't the police using google location or find my phone to find missing people?

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Why isn't the police using google location or find my phone to find missing people?

In denmark we have a missing 17 year old girl, for a couple of days now. She was on her way home from a night in the city, when she disappeared. It's bothering me, that from what I know, we have the actual apps and hardware to potentially know where she is or at least where she was last time the phone was turned on.

I know that maybe Googles location service isn't activated and that Google can't help then. But if the phone is turned on at the time the parents know that something's wrong and they don't have the password to find the phone themselves via a find my phone app (both apple and Google have a dedicated app) or use Google location service, then why don't the police have an effective way of reporting it to Google or apple and just get the actual location in the name of a rescuing?

And for Google location service, why don't the police just get the latest few locations from Google location service, which maybe could find the girl or at least give some insight.

That would partially solve the problem of personal location information, if google only gave the latest locations to the police, in the name of a rescuing.

Submitted July 13, 2016 at 07:02AM by Oliver-Andersen http://ift.tt/2a7xpDP via TikTokTikk