Missing adults - 163/18

Date Responded 19 February 2018

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:

How many adults from the age of 18 please, were reported missing to your Police force in 2017? 2. Can you provide a breakdown of their age and gender?

3. How many of the adults in Q1, if any, were reported to have gone missing abroad?

4. How many missing adults were reported as found in 2017?

5. How many of the adults reported missing to your Police force in 2017 had a mental health illness/flag attached to their record?

In Response:

We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I provide a response for your attention.

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.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

1&2.

Age group	Male	Female	Not stated	Total
18 to 20	206	222		428
21 to 25	320	247		567
26 to 30	342	190		532
31 to 35	318	171		489
36 to 40	220	143		363
41 to 45	198	77		275
46 to 50	137	76		213
51 to 55	119	50	1	170
56 to 60	96	29		125
61 to 65	54	26		80
66 to 70	29	8		37
71 to 75	31	13		44
76 to 80	16	9		25
80+	14	15		29
No age documented	6	7		13
Total	2106	1283	1	3390

3. No information held. We cannot answer this question as the missing person would be investigated in the location where they went missing.

If it were reported to this Force then the location missing from would be documented as their home address.

4. 3365

5. 873. To note – this figures is as held and depends on the officer documenting that the missing person has mental health issues on the missing person report. For those reasons we cannot verify figures as accurate and they should not be seen as such.

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would expect that you to take into consideration the factors highlighted above so as not to mislead members of the public or official bodies or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.

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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