Missing people
Hello,
I’m a reporter with Newsquest’s Data Investigations Unit, which shares data-led stories with more than 200 newspaper titles across the country.
In a bid to raise awareness and help tackle the missing persons crisis in the UK, I’m hoping to gather the information requested below with a view to publishing articles in many of our papers that can draw fresh attention to missing persons cases that remain unsolved but open.
If you feel my request should be further refined to achieve the disclosure requested, I’d be grateful if you could advise and assist me in doing so at an early stage.
With that in mind, I’d like to know the following:
1. The number of missing persons cases currently open
2. What that number of cases was in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018
3. For the cases that are currently open, I’d like to know how many relate to males, how many to females and how many to under-18s
For questions 1-3, please provide the answers in an Excel spreadsheet with headings as follows:
‘Number of missing person cases current’ ‘2018’ ‘2017’ ‘2016’ ‘2015’ ‘Current cases: male’ ‘Current cases: female’ ‘Current cases: under-18’
I’d also like to know the three longest-running, unsolved and still open missing persons cases on your files.
For each of those three cases, I’d like:
• The person’s identity, nationality, description, age, occupation and anything else known about them
• Where they were last sighted
• When they went missing and in what circumstances
• Status of the investigation currently, including when police last took action in relation to it and the nature of that action
• Copies or details of any public appeals made, if available and disclosure of the number of appeals issued in relation to the case
• Any images released to the public linked to the person concerned, or if not released, any images that the force would be willing to disclose in the hope they can help to trace the individual
As mentioned, if you feel this disclosure can’t be released in full, please advise as soon as possible as to how I could refine the request to ensure as much information as possible can be sent.
Yours faithfully,
Joanna Morris
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Our Ref:F-2019-02262
02 October, 2019
Dear Miss Morris ,
Thank you for your request for information dated 04 September, 2019 concerning Missing People.
This is to inform you that all information relating to your request has been considered and a relevant response has been attached.
Should any further information be requested regarding this topic, a separate request will need to be submitted.
If I can be of any further assistance on this matter please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours sincerely,
Adele Livingston
Information Compliance Officer
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