The search was part of training for Project Lifesaver, a nonprofit New Castle County Police Department program designed to help find people who are prone to wandering. [...] investment in an equipment upgrade and training last week by Project Lifesaver International instructor Gary Reynolds, the retired police chief of Winchester, Virginia, have positioned the program to grow. In addition to an unlimited number of new clients — whose families pay an initial $300 equipment fee and nominal yearly costs to replace transmitter wristbands and batteries — Crowley the program also is ready to partner with other public safety organizations to train their personnel and grow the service. In the one Delaware search, the missing person was an 80-year-old man with Alzheimer's who walked away from his Newark-area home, said Officer First Class Tom Jackson, a county police public information officer. In addition to the search by the man's individual Project Livesaver radio transmitter's frequency, he said, police also alerted other forces and used the reverse-911 telephone system to alert residents of his area. Crowley said the program, one of several safety efforts by the county police Community Services Unit, wants to help more people as it lives up to the Project Lifesaver slogan, "Bringing loved ones home safe."