Missing Persons (875A/22)
Request
1. How many people in your area went missing between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022? Please provide the numbers broken down by ethnicity and by age. In this question we are asking for the number of individuals, not total incidents/investigations.
2. How many total missing investigations were there between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022? Please provide the numbers broken down by ethnicity and by age.
3. Please provide a breakdown of the outcomes of missing investigations for children between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022, broken down by ethnicity.
4. Please provide a breakdown of the outcomes of missing investigations for adults between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022, broken down by ethnicity.
5. How many missing investigations for children between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022, broken down by ethnicity, had a:
a) Sexual Exploitation marker
b) Mental health marker
c) Criminal Exploitation marker
d) Trafficking marker
6. How many missing investigations for adults between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022, broken down by ethnicity, had a:
e) Sexual Exploitation marker
f) Mental health marker
g) Criminal Exploitation marker
h) Trafficking marker
7. Please provide the types of location from which the missing investigations for children were reported between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022, broken down by ethnicity.
8. Please provide the types of location from which the missing investigations for adults were reported between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022, broken down by ethnicity.
9. Please provide the number of missing investigations for children between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022 which lasted more than 48 hours, broken down by ethnicity.
10. Please provide the number of missing investigations for adults between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022 which lasted more than 48 hours, broken down by ethnicity.
11. Please provide the number of missing investigations for children between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022 which lasted more than 7 days, broken down by ethnicity.
12. Please provide the number of missing investigations for adults between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022 which lasted more than 7 days, broken down by ethnicity.
Response
Our data are not organised in such a way as to allow us to provide all of this information within the appropriate (cost) limit of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act (see ‘Reason for Decision’ below).
However, although excess cost removes the force’s obligations under the Freedom of Information Act, as a gesture of goodwill I have supplied information, relative to your request, retrieved before it was realised that the fees limit would be exceeded (see attached file 875A_22_attachment.pdf). I trust this is helpful, but it does not affect our legal right to rely on the fees regulations for the remainder of the request.
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.