Missing Persons (1064A/21)
Request
- How many missing persons cases have been filed (from Jan 2016-June 2021) in your police department?
1i. Within this, could you split it up by ethnicity (specifically how many are Caucasian, Asian and Black)?
1ii. Could you also split the data up by gender (but I would like to know how many are Black males, white females, etc)?
- Could you tell me of the number of missing Black people filed in your police department from 2016-2021, how many were under the age of 18?
Response
Please note that these data should be interpreted with caution
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.