FOI 519-24 Missing People
Enquiry Reference: 519 - 24
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request, Below is your request and our response.
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act to request the following information on missing people with fatal outcomes during in the last four yours. Please can you provide the below in either an Excel spreadsheet or Word document (or both if that is easier)/
- Between 2021 and 2024 how many missing person reports were filled
2021 - 5819
2022 - 6505
2023 - 6867
2024 to end April - 1838
- Of those missing persons reports how many of those people were found dead (i.e. fatal outcomes).
Information Not Held – this information is not routinely reported on the missing person’s report
- Of those ‘fatal outcomes’ please can you specify how many were treated as “suspicious” versus how many were treated as “not suspicious”
Information Not Held - this information is not routinely reported on the missing person’s report
- RE Q3. Can you specify how many fatal outcomes involving ethnic minorities (Black, Asian, and other Minority Ethnics) were treated as “suspicious” versus how many were treated
- as “non suspicious”
- RE Q3 Can you specify how many fatal outcomes involving non-ethnic minorities were treated as “suspiscious” how many were treated as non-suspiscious
- RE Q3 Can you specify how many fatal outcomes involving people aged under 30 were treated as “suspscious” vs “non-suspiscious”.
Information Not Held - this information is not routinely reported on the missing person’s report
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Yours sincerely
Information Rights Decision Maker