Victoria Police say they were kept busy Tuesday responding to two separate incidents of missing children, one shortly after the other.
Patrol officers located both kids safely after brief searches.
Just after 3:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, officers were called to the Quadra Village neighbourhood when afterschool program staff discovered a child missing. Police from several units halted their in-progress investigations and flooded the area near the school as part of their priority 1 response.
A description of the missing child was broadcast and responding officers began their search. A short time later, officers located the child at a residence with another family member. A miscommunication with the other family member led to the afte-rschool program not being updated.
A short time later officers responded to the Rockland neighbourhood after a concerned parent called 9-1-1 reporting their child, who normally rides her bicycle home from school, had not returned home. The parent had checked some of the places where their child may stop on her way home from school and with the child's friends. The parent began to search for their child and called police. Multiple officers responded.
Later, an officer who was part of the search spotted the girl near her home, riding her bicycle.
The girl reported that she had been detoured from her usual route home by construction and had become lost. The lost girl and concerned parent were reunited within 30 minutes of the initial call.