Officers recently found two children aged two and three years old in Amsterdam North who had left their parents’ apartment independently. Because the children could not tell where they lived, they took them to the police station.
Bystanders saw the children and shortly later approached officers in a passing police car. “Fortunately we found the pair quickly,” an officer wrote Facebook. “It turned out to be a three-year-old boy and his two-year-old sister. The boy was barefoot, his sister was crawling around in a kind of sleeping bag. They were soaking wet, felt ice cold and, according to our colleagues, were shivering.”
At the police station, officers tried to find out where the children lived, but before they could do so, the children’s father came forward. He stated that both he and his wife had not been able to sleep all night because of their other child and only at 11 a.m. woke up in an hour. They didn’t notice that their children had opened the front door and then taken the elevator down.
“The children were able to run away because the door was apparently not locked,” the officer wrote. “It is in any case advisable to actually lock the door at night. This will keep your children in and burglars out.” The two toddlers were returned to the relieved father and are doing well, according to the officer.
The police call it an example of unpredictable police work. “Even if you think you have experienced everything in this work, you can still be surprised by a remarkable message.”
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