DELTA (NEWS1130) – Vernon RCMP have cancelled the Amber Alert for 15-year-old Breeze Boden.

Delta police confirm the teen has been found safe and her father, 37-year-old Shane Phalen, is in custody.

Earlier this morning, a police emergency response team was called to a house at 117th Street and 93rd Avenue in Delta, where Phalen was thought to be holed up. Delta Sgt. Ciaran Feenan says an emergency response team was called in, but Boden was found unharmed and Phalen was taken into custody.

The RCMP in Vernon issued the Amber Alert last night for the 15-year-old, who police thought may have been with her father in a 1999 Green Ford Windstar minivan.

Amber Alert system is working: RCMP

Mounties are speaking about the outcome of this case.

Sgt. Rob Vermeulen with the RCMP’s E-Division says it’s another sign the Amber Alert system is working.

“Always great to see a successful conclusion,” he says. “I can tell you since the program started here in BC in 2004, and now including this most recent one from Vernon, we’ve had 13 Amber Alert activations involving 16 children and all of them have been located successfully.”

He credits that success with strict regulations on when an Amber Alert is issued — meaning the public is more likely to take one seriously.

“There is a strict set of criteria that has to be met before we can carry one out,” Vermeulen adds. “Since 2004, we’ve only had 13 activations so I think the public really does take them seriously when they hear about them.”

But it’s not just this case — of course, little Kienan Hiebert was the subject of an alert around this time last year that came to a miraculous end when the boy was returned to his home unharmed.

Vermeulen says coordinated communication between the public, media, and police agencies across the province has proven to be crucial.

Amber Alerts were introduced in BC in 2004. Earlier this year, an expansion of the program was announced in which 30,000 public service employees now receive an e-notification when an alert is issued.