A household from America have thanked the PSNI for locating their son after he went lacking throughout a go to to Titanic Belfast..
Tim and Sarah Southwell from Montana within the USA have been plunged into “worry and panic” as their seven-yr-previous boy slipped away among the many crowd on the museum.
In a letter to the Belfast Telegraph they stated “worry, panic and an unimaginable feeling of dread” unfold over them they usually scoured the world for his or her son.
After quarter-hour of their final sighting of their son they spoke with Constable Jim Millar over his lunch break on the Dock Cafe.
They stated: “With out giving it a second thought Constable Millar was up and engaged in precedence one: discovering our boy.
“Constable Millar displayed an air of calmness, professionalism and downright excellence as he went about partaking his community of fellow officers to implement a plan for finding our son.
“I used to be impressed together with his compassion and creative thought in implementing a plan of motion.”
The little boy was discovered forty five minutes later a mile away from the museum and was “scared and shaken” however in good well being.
Mr and Mrs Southwell stated they are going to be “eternally grateful” to the PSNI.
“Although the web websites and vacationer books proclaim the flamboyant eating places, cozy lodges and hottest points of interest as the rationale to go to a specific metropolis, it’s the hidden gems that make a spot value visiting.
“Belfast has such a factor in its police pressure – women and men like Jim Millar of PSNI Strandtown, working tirelessly to offer security and properly-being for all people that stroll her streets.
“We’re perpetually grateful for his or her service and can sit up for one other go to to this excellent metropolis within the years to return.”