According to the Ontario Provincial Police Prince Edward County Detachment, members of the public were of great assistance in finding a lost child at Sandbanks Provincial Park on Sunday.
Police say a six-year-old child went missing shortly after 5:30 p.m.
The OPP was called in to assist in the search by the Sandbanks Park wardens.
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When the police were contacted, the child had been missing for 30 minutes and had last been seen in the water.
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Emergency services engaged members of the public in forming a line to search the water and beach.
The child was eventually found more than a kilometre from where the child was last seen.
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