Residents Will Be Called When Big Cats Are Seen
Authorities told concerned residents that the next time a mountain lion wandered near their homes, an automated telephone call would alert them and officers would be trained in how to best handle such encounters.
At a City Hall meeting Wednesday night in response to the fatal police shooting of a mountain lion that wandered into a residential neighborhood May 18, Palo Alto Police Chief Lynne Johnson apologized for not using the city’s emergency telephone alert system when officers first searched for the animal.
Concerned residents said police should have used the loudspeakers in their patrol cars to alert them.
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