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:
- The cause of death of fatal missing person cases from the year 2019/2020; specifically:
a) Please provide a count of all cases of a missing person recorded in the Northumbria Police area who were found deceased during the period 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 (to include cases where the individual was initially reported missing prior to this period);
b) With the count above (a) as the total, please provide sub-totals for the cause of death recorded in these cases (e.g. accident, suicide, homicide, natural causes, unknown); and
c) If possible, please provide information on the age of missing people in each cause of death category (under 18 / 18 an over / not known) and their gender (male / female / other / not known).
2 In addition, please also provide the same data from 2018/2019.
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.
I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows, however the following caveats should be noted:-
- To define a suicide or homicide, the relevant flag on the record on the force system has been used.
- We do not have a separate flag for a natural cause death or accident. As such we would not be able to provide this data.
- It should also be noted that the force systems currently hold gender as Male, Female or Unknown.
- Ages have been calculated based on the date found, not the date missing.
Bearing the above in mind please see the information below;
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Total number of missing persons found deceased 2018/19 = 14 |
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Suicide |
Homicide |
Unknown |
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Total cases found 2018/19 |
11 |
0 |
3 |
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Age |
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Under 18 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Over 18 |
11 |
0 |
3 |
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Age not recorded |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Gender |
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Male |
9 |
0 |
3 |
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Female |
2 |
0 |
0 |
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Not Known |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Total number of missing persons found deceased 2019/20 = 26 |
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Suicide |
Homicide |
Unknown |
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Total cases found 2019/20 |
18 |
0 |
8 |
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Age |
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Under 18 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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Over 18 |
17 |
0 |
8 |
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Age not recorded |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Gender |
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Male |
12 |
0 |
8 |
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Female |
6 |
0 |
0 |
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Not known |
0 |
0 |
0 |
