Missing Persons (884A/21)
Request
1) The number of people who have been reported missing to this force during the calendar year of 2017–2018, 2018-2019 and 2019-2020?
2) The number of people who were reported missing who were then found during the calendar year of
2017–2018, 2018-2019 and 2019-2020?
- a) Can this be broken down by Gender?
- b) Can this be broken down by Ethnicity?
- c) Can this please be broken down by each age range 0-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50, 51-60, 61-70 and 71 plus?
3) The number of people who have been reported missing to this force during the lockdown period from 23 March 2020 – 4 July 2020?
4) The number of people who were reported missing who were then found during the lockdown period from 23 March 2020 – 4 July 2020?
- a) Can this be broken down by Gender?
- b) Can this be broken down by Ethnicity?
- c) Can this please be broken down by each age range 0-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50, 51-60, 61-70 and 71 plus?
Response
Please find attached our response.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.