FOI 230-24 Missing Persons
Enquiry Reference: 230 -24
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response.
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The below answers do not contain any information on those with no DOB recorded.
Number of individual adults reported missing in the last rolling twelve months.
- There were 2,643 incidents of adults MFH in the 12 months to March 24.
Total number of missing “periods” reported to your force (1 adult reported as missing twice would be two “periods).
- 2576 were missing only once or the volume left blank so caution is needed as this is unreliable.
67 adults were missing more than once in the 12 months
Percentage of adults who are known to have been caused harm during a missing person episode.
Percentage of adults who are known to have caused themselves harm during a missing person episode.
- No information held.
We do not record harm caused to the missing is not recorded at the case management system level therefore to determine such detail would require a manual search through all the records. This would be a time consuming process which would initiate the excess cost exemption.
Percentage of these adults reported as missing who could be considered as “frequent mispers” (10+ episodes in a rolling twelve month period).
- 1 adult was recorded as missing 10 times but we do not record 'frequent' as 10 or more in a 12 month period.
Number of individual children reported missing in the last rolling twelve months.
- There were 4,476 incidents of children reported as MFH in the 12 months to March 24.
Total number of missing “periods” for children.
- 1200 were missing more than once in the 12 months
3276 were not repeats
Total number of these children reported missing from care homes.
- 1,308 children were flagged as missing from care in the 12 months to March 24.
Percentage of children who have been caused harm during a missing person episode.
Percentage of children who have caused themselves harm during a missing person episode.
Percentage of these children that have been reported as missing who could be considered as “frequent mispers” (20+ episodes in a rolling twelve month period).
- No information held.
We do not record harm caused to the missing is not recorded at the case management system level therefore to determine such detail would require a manual search through all the records. This would be a time consuming process which would initiate the excess cost exemption.
Total number of low risk missing persons (for each of the last 5 years)
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2019 |
229 |
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2020 |
167 |
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2021 |
133 |
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2022 |
78 |
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2023 |
114 |
Average length of time missing for low risk missing persons (for each of the last 5 years)
- This depends on the return date being filled in consistently. Some do not have a return date and there is no guarantee that those with dates were filled in with the time they returned rather than the time the officer updated the log. Due to the volume missing I don’t think the average time missing is reliable to be given out for any risk type.
Number of low risk missing persons who have been found deceased during a missing period (for each of the last 5 years)
- The search did not bring back any records with a role code of missing and also deceased.
Total number of medium risk missing persons (for each of the last 5 years)
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2019 |
4606 |
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2020 |
4566 |
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2021 |
5581 |
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2022 |
6077 |
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2023 |
6409 |
Average length of time missing for medium risk missing persons (for each of the last 5 years)
- This depends on the return date being filled in consistently. Some do not have a return date and there is no guarantee that those with dates were filled in with the time they returned rather than the time the officer updated the log. Due to the volume missing I don’t think the average time missing is reliable to be given out for any risk type
Number of medium risk missing persons who have been found deceased during a missing period (for each of the last 5 years)
- Volume per year of those missing from home with a medium risk marker and role code of both missing and deceased.
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2019 |
3 |
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2020 |
2 |
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2021 |
0 |
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2022 |
3 |
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2023 |
0 |
Total number of high risk missing persons (for each of the last 5 years)
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2019 |
310 |
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2020 |
567 |
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2021 |
944 |
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2022 |
1099 |
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2023 |
1127 |
Average length of time missing for high risk missing persons (for each of the last 5 years)
- This depends on the return date being filled in consistently. Some do not have a return date and there is no guarantee that those with dates were filled in with the time they returned rather than the time the officer updated the log. Due to the volume missing I don’t think the average time missing is reliable to be given out for any risk type
Number of high risk missing persons who have been found deceased during a missing period (for each of the last 5 years)
- Volume per year of those missing from home with a high risk marker and role code of both missing and deceased.
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2019 |
0 |
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2020 |
4 |
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2021 |
3 |
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2022 |
4 |
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2023 |
4 |
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Yours sincerely
Information Rights Decision Maker