Feb 18th, 2019
The Mobile Police Department honors Angela Spurlock with the Civilian Employee of the Month Award for January 2019. Spurlock is a public safety dispatcher II in the Communications Unit. She is recognized for serving both citizens and officers exceptionally and for her dedication to duty and quick thinking.
On Jan. 12, 2019 at approximately 5:18 p.m., the Third Precinct units were dispatched to a missing person call at Mobile Infirmary. The missing person was a 74-year-old woman who suffered from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease and was dressed only in a robe. Spurlock dispatched additional units as well as the precinct supervisors.
As daylight disappeared, the fear was that the elderly woman would be out in inclement weather overnight. Without being asked to do so, Spurlock checked the missing woman’s driver’s license for an address. She quickly advised the units that the woman’s home address was not far from the hospital. A unit responded to the location and was able to find the woman safe. She had walked from the hospital to her residence on Springhill Ave.
The Third Precinct lieutenant called to thank Spurlock for her quick thinking to help locate the elderly woman, thus saving units time and effort.
MOBILE POLICE DEPARTMENT