At a crowded bus stop, a police officer notices that a child of about 7 has been pushed out of the bus involuntarily. The crowd piling into the bus is so thick that the child is unable to get back on. After the bus has gone, the officer learns from the child that her mother was on the bus but was probably unable to get out because of the crowd pushing in. The child knows her own address, a considerable distance away, and in an opposite direction from the one in which she was traveling. Of the following, the best action for the officer to take FIRST is to

Most Police Officer exams test candidates for the following skills:
Deductive Reasoning
Inductive Reasoning
Spatial Orientation
Memorization
Visualization
Reading Comprehension
Verbal Expression
Mathematical Reasoning
Problem Solving
Written Expression