'Gamer cop': Officer uses gaming app to get missing teen to return home
A New York police officer, who has grown up playing video games, is being credited with saving the life of a teen by using an online gaming app.
Officer Gary Strebel's efforts have earned him the nickname "gamer cop."
Strebel's social media and gaming skills kicked in recently following a missing child report, .
"We looked around to see if there was anything that might help us, and I noticed his computer open with an app I recognize,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said Strebel, who has been with NYPD for three years.
The gaming app Strebel found was Discord, which lets users communicate during game play.
"I saw the app, and I realized that if he has this on his phone as well, then there바카라 게임 웹사이트s a chance I can get through to him this way,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Strebel said.
As luck would have it, the teen had the app on his phone and began communicating with Strebel.
But Strebel admitted that, for a period of time, he was unsure if the teen would return home.
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About an hour after Strebel messaged the teen, he returned home.
"It바카라 게임 웹사이트s always great when you get these kind of jobs, especially when they involve a child, and they do come home. I was able to do it with something we바카라 게임 웹사이트re not exactly trained on,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Strebel said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트I was very happy he came home. I was ecstatic that it actually worked and that he believed me to come home.바카라 게임 웹사이트
In congratulating Strebel, his precinct tweeted, "Who said being a millennial was a bad thing? Great work, Officer Strebel, putting your many years of gaming 'research' to work & getting this young #gamer home safe!"