Missing People - 399/20

Date Responded 17 March 2020

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

I would like to know the number of reported missing people recorded within your policing boundaries in the year 2019. I would like this broken down month-by-month, January to December.

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Corporate Development Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

As advised in our acknowledgement email this request has been aggregated with your previous request (FOI 206/20) with regards to time constraints under the Act, as they refer to the same subject area – Missing People.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows which refers to the total number of reported instances of missing persons and will include repeat instances for some individuals, i.e. it’s not 9,488 unique individuals.

Month	Count
Jan	660
Feb	672
Mar	744
Apr	775
May	874
Jun	828
Jul	796
Aug	752
Sep	755
Oct	655
Nov	936
Dec	1041
Total	9488

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

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