No municipal police department of the state shall have in force any regulation or policy that requires a twenty-four (24) hour waiting period prior to conducting an investigation of a complaint of a missing child.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-28.8-2.1
Investigation
P.L. 1988, ch. 260, § 2.
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